Kathleen's Weblog : Videos: Pro Dev Series

Video How to: Writing Queries in Visual Basic

kmcgrath — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:54:48 GMT

Visual Basic 2008 has added the ability to write database queries directly in native Visual Basic syntax. It's called LINQ (for language-integrated query), and you can get an introduction to how it works by watching this Video How to.

This video shows you the Visual Basic 2008 language features that enable you to write LINQ query expressions. The following tasks are included in the process:

How to create an in-memory data source.
How to create the query.
How to execute the query.
How to modify the query.

You can follow the steps and find the code used in this video in Walkthrough: Writing Queries in Visual Basic.

If you have suggestions for other Video How tos you'd like to see in our documentation, please let us know!

--Kathleen

Video: LINQ Syntax in Visual Studio

kmcgrath — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:50:32 GMT

Join Beth Massi and Amanda Silver in this latest Visual Basic video. Amanda, who is a Lead Program manager on the Visual Basic team, demonstrate the LINQ syntax around Joins and Aggregates.

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-- Kathleen

Video: Extension Methods in Visual Basic 9.0

kmcgrath — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:34:31 GMT

In this interview, Beth Massi discusses Extension Methods with VB developer, Scott Wisniewski. Scott shows us how they can extend types with discoverable methods.

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-- Kathleen

Video: Extension Methods, Anonymous Types and More!

kmcgrath — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:42:00 GMT

In this video interview from the Visual Basic team, Beth Massi talks to Kit George about his favorite language features in Visual Basic that enable LINQ. We produced these videos to show the interview and the screencast code demos at the same time. Be sure to check it out.

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-- Kathleen

Video: Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008

kmcgrath — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:53:56 GMT

In this video interview from the Visual Basic team, Cameron McColl shows Beth Massi the performance improvements that were made in Visual Studio 2008.

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--Kathleen

Video: Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0

kmcgrath — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:20:10 GMT

Here's another video from the Visual Basic team: Beth Massi interviews Jonathan Aneja, as he describes and demonstrates the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0. Learn how you can start to migrate your VB 6 code to .NET using this toolkit.

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-- Kathleen

Video: XML Literals

kmcgrath — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:05:59 GMT

Check out the video I recorded/produced with Beth Massi and Erik Meijer. Beth interviews Erik, and he desribes and demonstrates his favorite Visual Basic 9.0 feature: XML Lilterals.

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Enjoy!

--Kathleen

VSTA 2005 Videos

kmcgrath — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:14:10 GMT

Learn more about how to add customizations to your applications with Visual Studio Tools for Applications. Download the Studio 2005 Tools for Application Software Development Kit (SDK) and visit the VSTA Dev Center.

Watch the following videos to learn more about VSTA, how VSTA can enable macro recording in your applications, and see a demo of VSTA in action.

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Visual Studio Extensibility Video: Creating VSPackages

kmcgrath — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:48:59 GMT

We've posted a new Visual Studio Extensibility video called Customize Visual Studio by Creating VSPackages. This video demonstrates how to use the Visual Studio Integration Package wizard to create a simple tool window.

You can see other Visual Studio extensibility videos by visiting the Extensibility Center.

-- Kathleen

Visual Studio 2005 Extensibility Videos

kmcgrath — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:33:00 GMT

You can learn how to customize Visual Studio by creating macros, add-ins and packages. To learn more, visit the Visual Studio Extensibility Center.

Be sure to check out the new video: Customize Visual Studio by Creating Add-ins

--Kathleen

Video Screencast: Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0

kmcgrath — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:38:00 GMT

Learn how you can add .NET functionality to your existing VB 6 applications using the Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0. I've posted a video screencast on the VB Team blog.

--Kathleen