June 2007 - Posts

Sleepless from Bulgaria: an intern's first weeks in the VB team
29 June 07 02:47 PM

I started as an intern at Microsoft two weeks ago, and I thought it might be nice to share my experience with you. Not just because I love blogging, but also because I think that there are so many great things that happen here that are worth mentioning. Read More...

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Filed under: Slavi Marinov

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 3: Find all the prime numbers in a given range (Jonathan Aneja)
28 June 07 01:21 PM

Ingredients: - Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ-To-Objects Instructions: - Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/New Project’. Find and double-click the ‘Console Application’ Icon - Add the following code: Module Module1 Sub Main() Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Jonathan Aneja, Orcas, VB2008, LINQ Cookbook

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 4: Find all complex types in a given assembly (Kit George)
27 June 07 06:30 PM

Ingredients: - Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) - An assembly which you want to analyze (in this example, we use mscorlib.dll, the assembly which houses String) - A definition for 'Complex Type'. In this instance, a complex type is defined as having Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Kit George, VB2008, LINQ Cookbook, Kevin Halverson

Today's Live From Redmond Webcast Rescheduled [Beth Massi]
27 June 07 07:34 AM

Amanda Silver came down with a nasty sickness last night so we just had to reschedule her Live From Redmond: VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML talk for this Tuesday July 3rd. If you're already registered then you're good to go for next week and automated Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, Beth Massi

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 2: Find all capitalized words in a phrase and sort by length (then alphabetically) (Kit George)
22 June 07 04:59 PM

Ingredients: - Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) - Some text you want to search Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and strings, LINQ and WinForms Instructions: - Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/New Project’. Find and double-click the ‘Windows Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Kit George, VB2008, LINQ Cookbook

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 1: Change the font for all labels on a windows form (Kit George)
22 June 07 04:24 PM

Folks, we’re gonna start a ‘cookbook’ of LINQ entries, which we’ll be building over time. This is just meant to be a series of solutions to specific scenarios, that the team comes across when writing code and using queries. I can't think of a better way Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Kit George, VB2008, LINQ Cookbook

Closures in VB Part 4: Variable Lifetime
15 June 07 02:04 PM

For previous articles in this series please see Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Method Calls Part 3: Scope Sorry for the long delay between posts here. We're getting Orcas out the door and getting this series completed takes a back seat to shipping. Originally Read More...

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Filed under: Orcas, Jared Parsons

Slide Deck and Samples for LINQ Best Practices (Beth Massi)
13 June 07 06:55 PM

Lisa Feigenbaum gave a great webcast this morning on LINQ best practices (if you missed it, just click the link and view it on-demand). Here is the deck and the samples she used. Please Note: The sample code is based on a more recent build of Visual Studio Read More...

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Filed under: Lisa Feigenbaum, LINQ/VB9, Beth Massi

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Live From Redmond Webcast Just Added on LINQ to XML (Beth Massi)
13 June 07 06:40 PM

Back by popular demand! Amanda Silver will be presenting Live From Redmond: VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML on June 27th. In Visual Basic 9.0, XML becomes a built-in data type with a rich editing experience that completely eliminates the conceptual Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, Beth Massi

Some thoughts on Edit and Continue and Design-Time Expression Evaluation (Matt Gertz)
12 June 07 11:07 AM

The story of Edit and Continue (which I’ll refer to as EnC) is a very long one. Having been a cornerstone of Visual Basic in the past, it had always been planned for us to ship an Edit and Continue experience with Visual Studio 2002. But we didn’t. Why? Read More...

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Filed under: Matt Gertz, VB2005

What is the difference between VB 9, VBx and Silverlight? (Scott Wisniewski)
07 June 07 06:58 PM

I recently received an email from a customer asking for clarification as to what the difference was between VB 9 , VBx and Sliverlight . In particular, it seems as if we have been releasing so much information about cool new stuff that at least a few Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, VB2005, Orcas, DLR, Silverlight, Web

Slide deck for Interop Toolkit Webcast
06 June 07 05:38 PM

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out for this morning's webcast. We covered how to use the Interop Toolkit 2.0 to upgrade VB6 applications to VB.NET, how to deploy hybrid applications, and finally we touched on some other great interop resources Read More...

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Filed under: Jonathan Aneja, VB2005, VB6_Migration/Interop

Attachment(s):Interop Toolkit 2.0 - Webcast.ppt

Visual Basic XML Transform - TechEd demo prep
06 June 07 09:13 AM

Hello from Orlando! I’ve been at TechEd 2007 this week in very sunny Orlando. As part of my demo prep, I had to create a little xml transform to convert the TechEd schedule that I got off the www.msteched.com website in an Excel XML format into a more Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9

InteropForms 2.0 Tip #1 - Font Property
04 June 07 04:55 PM

(Starting today, we'll be highlighting various tips that might help you when using the InteropForms 2.0 toolkit. With the latest release of the toolkit, you can do some fairly impressive upgrades to your existing VB6 applications. Don't believe me? Check Read More...

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Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Todd Apley

Deploying Applications with the InteropForms 2.0 toolkit
04 June 07 04:46 PM

(Recently, we released the InteropForms 2.0 toolkit which allows you to add the richness of .net windows forms to your vb6 application. We've gotten a fair number of questions from customers asking for more details on deployment, so this will hopefully Read More...

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Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Todd Apley

Dissecting Snippets (Matt Gertz)
04 June 07 03:03 PM

The snippet feature is one of the features that I’m fondest of in Visual Basic. It was another one of a handful of features that got discussed in a series of “What if…” meetings that Sam & I had during the “Whidbey” planning stages. As I recall, the Read More...

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Filed under: Matt Gertz, VB2005

Visual Basic LINQ Hands On Labs for Orcas Beta 1 (Beth Massi)
04 June 07 11:23 AM

The VB team just posted some Hands On Labs on LINQ and LINQ to SQL for Orcas Beta 1. The first lab provides an introduction to The LINQ Project . You'll look at basic LINQ features including the Standard Query Operators, and you'll see how these features Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, Beth Massi

So what does ComClass actually do?
01 June 07 07:59 PM

I came across a really cool article yesterday by James Ashley, which shows some of the cool things you can do with the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 . The three VB6 examples cover consuming a WebService (complete with a Dilbert icon showing up in the VB6 Read More...

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Filed under: Jonathan Aneja, VB2005, VB6_Migration/Interop