November 2007 - Posts

Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT (Bill Horst)
28 November 07 10:37 AM

This post assumes you’ve read Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics . I’ve made the following name changes since the last post, which I hope will make the code examples clearer: · Customers -> CustomerTable · Orders -> OrderTable · cust -> Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, VB2008, Bill Horst, Converting SQL to LINQ

Launching External Tools from inside Visual Studio (Jonathan Aneja)
27 November 07 08:08 PM

Visual Studio has a small but extremely useful feature that allows you to hook external tools directly into the IDE’s Tools menu. All you have to do is click Tools->External Tools… and then you can add your own custom menu items that will launch a Read More...

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Filed under: IDE, Jonathan Aneja, VB2005, Orcas, VB2008, VS2005

Drawing Maps with Visual Basic (Scott Wisniewski)
26 November 07 11:35 AM

If you find yourself looking for something to do with your awesome new copy of Visual Studio 2008 , you should check out the December 2007 edition of MSDN magazine . It features an article, written by me, that provides a walk through on how to visualize Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, Orcas, VB2008, WPF, XML

Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion Update (Young Joo)
24 November 07 04:21 AM

Been a while since I posted Chapter 3 of Petzold's WPF book converted to VB . In case you missed it, Patrick started working on this project which I took over early this month. Anyway, I am very excited to tell you about progress we've been able to make Read More...

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Filed under: Young Joo, WPF

Awesome VB9 Blog Series by Bart De Smet (Amanda Silver)
21 November 07 02:48 AM

I guess I've been working too hard on getting the product ready to ship to notice that Bart has put together an awesome blog series on VB9 . It includes discussion of a feature called runtime agility or compiler agility that we haven't taken up on this Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, Orcas, VB2008

Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 and Visual Studio 2008 Shell released (Beth Massi)
20 November 07 10:40 PM

Today the VS Ecosystem team released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 and the Visual Studio 2008 shell . The VS 2008 SDK contains full native Visual Basic support and contains many VB samples. What was in the VB Pack for the VS 2005 SDK is now included Read More...

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Filed under: Beth Massi, VB2008

Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 (Amanda Silver)
20 November 07 10:24 PM

Yesterday I promised to post about the hidden gems in Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2008 that you haven’t read about in blog posts or seen at conferences. I forgot that I mentioned a few of my favorite features in the Beta1 announcement where I Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, IDE, VB_Express, Extension_Methods, Orcas, VB2008, IQueryable

Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics (Bill Horst)
19 November 07 11:26 AM

As you may already know, VB LINQ statements enable SQL-like syntax for queries in the VB language. LINQ syntax doesn't match SQL syntax exactly, so if you are already working with SQL or familiar with SQL queries, you may find yourself wanting to convert Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, VB2008, Bill Horst, Converting SQL to LINQ

Visual Basic 2008 Ships!!! (Amanda Silver)
19 November 07 09:27 AM

Hooray! Today we’ve finally shipped Visual Studio 2008, previously known as “Orcas”, previously known as some symbol which doesn’t have an ascii representation. We’ve come a long way , but it’s been a great ride. In Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, IDE, VB_Express, Extension_Methods, Orcas, Visual Basic History, VB2008, LINQ Cookbook, IQueryable

One is the Loneliest Number (Matt Gertz)
13 November 07 10:09 AM

(This post assumes that you’ve read my previous post on Windows Media at http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/10/30/let-the-music-play-matt-gertz.aspx – I will be modifying that code in this post.) After posting my media player blog sample a couple Read More...

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Filed under: Matt Gertz, VB2005, VB2008

Attachment(s):VBJukebox.zip

Don Box on Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)
13 November 07 09:21 AM

It looks like Don Box is really liking Visual Basic 9 and it's unique XML support, LINQ query syntax , and lambdas . He even mentions in a post about authentication with REST that his dream stack would be doing direct XML payload programming with Visual Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Beth Massi

Creating Visual Basic Add-ins for Windows Home Server (Beth Massi)
08 November 07 11:00 AM

We recently announced the availability of Windows Home Server . Here's an interview on Channel 9 with Dev Lead, Chris Gray, where he talks about the extensibility model and then walks through how to create an add-in for the Home Server console using Visual Read More...

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Filed under: VB_Express, Beth Massi

Channel 9 Interview: Type Inference in Visual Basic with Bill Horst (Beth Massi)
08 November 07 09:25 AM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Bill Horst , a member of the Visual Basic QA team. Bill shows us the ins and outs type inference in the newest version of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2008. He shows us how the new Option Infer works and how Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Beth Massi

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 10: Pre-compiling Queries for Performance (Doug Rothaus)
06 November 07 03:55 PM

Ingredients: · Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ to SQL Introduction: As we add cookbook entries, we will include performance improvement tips where appropriate. Here’s a tip that you can use with LINQ to SQL to speed up queries that Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, VB2008, LINQ Cookbook, Doug Rothaus

Petzold Chapter 3 (Young Joo)
04 November 07 10:55 PM

I am Young Joo, PM @ VB team. I will be helping out Patrick on converting samples in Charles Petzold's WPF book (Applications = Code + Markup) to Visual Basic. This is an exciting project and I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. Another exciting news Read More...

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Filed under: Young Joo, VB6_Migration/Interop, WPF, SMB

Attachment(s):Ch_03_Concept_of_Content.zip

Refactoring in Action (Lisa Feigenbaum)
03 November 07 07:29 PM

Have you downloaded the latest Refactoring tools from Developer Express? There is a free version available on the Visual Basic Developer Center . Once you download, you will discover a number of cool capabilities you can now do in the Visual Basic IDE. Read More...

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Filed under: Lisa Feigenbaum, IDE

New Community Article - Using Business Objects with WCF (Beth Massi)
02 November 07 08:00 AM

There's a new article up on the VB Dev Center by Rob Windsor , a follow up from his first Getting Started with WCF article, called Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation . Rob explains how to serialize your own custom business Read More...

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Filed under: Beth Massi, WCF

New Visual Basic LINQ to XML Videos Released! (Beth Massi)
01 November 07 12:03 PM

We just released a new set of How-Do-I videos in our LINQ series on LINQ to XML in Visual Basic. These 4 new videos will help get you up to speed on using this new language feature in Visual Basic 2008. They walk you through the basics of LINQ to XML, Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Beth Massi