May 2008 - Posts

LINQ Deep Dive and Best Practices Presentation Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)
15 May 08 04:45 PM

I presented the following talk this week at VSLive! Orlando 2008 : Visual Studio 2008: LINQ Deep Dive and Best Practices LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a key platform innovation introduced with Visual Studio 2008 which brings SQL-style query expressions Read More...

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VB 2008 IDE Tips & Tricks Presentation Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)
14 May 08 11:54 PM

Last week I went on a user group tour around Southern California. I've uploaded the materials from my talk: Powerpoint presentation Solution at the Start of the Demo Solution at the End of the Demo You can find these all posted together on the following Read More...

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How LINQ to Dataset works in VB (Jonathan Aneja)
14 May 08 04:52 PM

LINQ at its core requires any data source to be queryable , which basically means it must implement IEnumerable. (It’s actually a bit more complicated than that, for a full explanation see section 11.21.2 of the Visual Basic 9.0 Language Specification Read More...

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Using LINQ to Dataset in an .aspx page (Jonathan Aneja)
13 May 08 06:35 PM

Recently I got a customer question about how to use LINQ to Dataset in an .aspx file. The compiler was complaining that it couldn't find the AsEnumerable method that allows LINQ to work over a DataTable ("AsEnumerable is not a member of 'DataTable'"). Read More...

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Visual Basic "Learn" Section of MSDN - Give it a Spin (Beth Massi)
09 May 08 01:55 PM

The Learn tab of the Visual Basic Developer Center is being updated with a bunch of new content and VS 2008 topics. If you look at the center of the page you'll see the list of topics and when you click one, you should now see some fresh stuff. Currently Read More...

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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 5: The “Halloween” Problem (Doug Rothaus)
08 May 08 09:47 AM

In the last two XML cookbook entries, we talked about the technique of using the ReplaceWith method to perform an identity transform. While this technique may meet your needs, it can introduce a problem in your code commonly referred to as the “Halloween” Read More...

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Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 10: Like (Bill Horst)
07 May 08 04:54 PM

This post assumes you’ve read my previous Converting SQL to LINQ posts. I haven’t had much in the way of specific requests for more LINQ posts, so I’d still welcome any suggestions that people want to offer. I did get one request about how to mimic the Read More...

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Come join me on a Southern California user group tour (Lisa Feigenbaum)
05 May 08 02:36 AM

I will be presenting on the VB IDE in Southern California this week at a series of user group meetings. The events will be held in the San Diego and the Los Angeles area . Charlie Calvert from the C# team will be flying down from Redmond to speak as well. Read More...

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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 4: Get Inner XML from the Nodes Property (Doug Rothaus)
01 May 08 04:50 PM

Recipe 3 showed one way to work with mixed XML content using the XML Descendant axis property and the ReplaceWith method. This is one way to do an identity transform and we’ll look at another method in a later post. There is a key capability not mentioned Read More...

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