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Advanced Basics: The ObservableCollection Class

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) adds functionality to the Microsoft .NET Framework so that you actually can reliably keep bound controls synchronized with their data sources. In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Ken Getz demonstrates how Read More...
Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Basic Instincts: Dynamic Data Entry With XML Literals

Wouldn't it be nice to generate all your maintenance screens in your data-driven applications automatically? In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Beth Massi shows you how to create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) user interfaces at run time Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Advanced Basics: More On The LINQ Enumerable Class

The System.Linq.Enumerable class plays an important role in every LINQ query you create, making it possible to use querying semantics with objects that wouldn't otherwise support querying methods. In the July 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Ken Getz took Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Basic Instincts: Increase LINQ Query Performance

LINQ is a powerful tool enabling quick filtering data based on a standard query language. It can tear through a structured set of data using a simple and straightforward syntax. In the August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Jared Parsons demonstrates a Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Advanced Basics: The LINQ Enumerable Class

The Enumerable class plays an important role in every LINQ query you create. Because the Enumerable class's extension methods can process many other classes—including Array and List—you can use methods of the Enumerable class not only to create LINQ queries, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

A Survey of .NET Languages And Paradigms

Hundreds of languages target Windows either directly through the Win32 API or through the CLR, and more are being built every day. While you've probably heard about many of these new languages and language paradigms, you may be wondering what it all means. Read More...
Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments

Basic Instincts: My Namespace Extensions with My Extensibility

With the My Extensibility feature, new in Visual Basic 2008, My namespace extensions can be activated or deactivated through the Project Properties Designer, or when an associated reference is added or removed from a project. This capability makes extending Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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LINQ coverage in March MSDN Magazine

In the March 2008 installment of the Advanced Basics column in MSDN Magazine , Ken Getz shows you how to programmatically interact with the Office Open XML File Formats using Visual Studio 2008, LINQ to XML, and the Community Technology Preview (CTP) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:58 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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.NET Matters: Asynchronous Stream Processing

Say you want to copy from one stream to another, using only the asynchronous methods on Stream. How can you loop such requests continually in order to process the whole stream? Is that even possible? In the March 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Stephen Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Visual Basic: XML, Reflection, and Generics

LINQ-enabled languages like Visual Basic give you a rich set of query operators that can be applied to various data sources, such as in-memory collections, databases, datasets, and XML. That alone is pretty cool, but Visual Basic 9.0 actually goes beyond Read More...
Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Build Office-Based Solutions Using WPF, WCF, And LINQ

With Visual Studio 2008, you can build a solution that incorporates the native capabilities of an Office client application combined with the sophisticated UI capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation that's connected to remote data and services Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 8:22 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Create Dynamic Maps with Visual Basic 9.0 and WPF

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) data-binding infrastructure is based around the concepts of dependency objects and dependency properties. A dependency object provides support for change notification and the ability to dynamically fetch and retrieve Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Basic Instincts: Extension methods in Visual Basic

You typically extend a class by deriving from a base class and enhancing the functionality in the derived class. A new feature in Visual Basic 2008, you extend any existing type's functionality, even when a type is not inheritable. In the November issue Read More...
Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Basic Instincts: Type inference in Visual Basic 2008

To support Language Integrated Query (LINQ), a suite of new technologies was added to the upcoming release of Visual Basic 2008 that includes type inference. With type inference, the types of method-level members are inferred based on the right-hand side Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 1 Comments

Lambda expressions in Visual Basic 2008

Lambda expressions are callable entities that are defined within a function. You can return a lambda expression from a function and you can pass lambda expressions to other functions. Support for lambda expressions as introduced in Visual Basic 2008, Read More...
Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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