April 2009 - Posts

TechEd North America, here we come! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
30 April 09 08:05 PM

TechEd North America 2009 is right around the corner. For those of you attending, we look forward to spending time with you at the VB.NET sessions and Technical Learning Center (a.k.a. booth). I've pasted the VB.NET session list below. DTL04-INT Strategies Read More...

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Filed under: Lisa Feigenbaum, Jonathan Aneja, Anders Hejlsberg, Dustin Campbell, TechEd2009

When using LINQ to XML why don’t I get results if I don’t import a XML namespace (Daniel Walzenbach)?
29 April 09 05:20 PM

Hi, I posted a bit of code the other day which I used to get a list of all Code Snippets we ship in Visual Studio . In a nutshell, I used XElement.Load to create a new XML document from a filename from which I then read elements from (There are way to Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, XML, Daniel Walzenbach

Luca Bolognese on Asynchronous HTML caching in VB.NET (Lisa Feigenbaum)
29 April 09 12:15 PM

You may know Luca Bolognese from his well-known work on C# LINQ. Luca is now the Group Program Manager for VB.NET, C#, and F#. You can check out his blog here . Luca recently blogged his first VB.NET post. It is about asynchronous HTML caching, and is Read More...

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Filed under: Lisa Feigenbaum, VB2010, Luca Bolognese

How to get a list of all files of a directory (subdirectories included) (Daniel Walzenbach)?
23 April 09 11:53 AM

I needed to create a list of all Code Snippets we ship in Visual Studio the other day containing their title, description and path on disc and size. As you might know, Code Snippets are stored in multiple directories below "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Daniel Walzenbach

Two free e-books available till April 22th to celebrate MS Press’s 25th b-day (Daniel Walzenbach)
16 April 09 02:30 PM

2009 is the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Press ! To celebrate their b-bay they’re giving away two free e-books, namely Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Companion by Charlie Russel and Sharon Crawford (27 chapters, 3 appendices, 712 Read More...

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Filed under: VB_Express, VB2008, Daniel Walzenbach

Keep the Customer Satisfied (Matt Gertz)
13 April 09 08:21 PM

As I’ve written elsewhere, the toughest critics for any work you do can always be found in your own family. Pleased at the immense work that I’d done in scanning in and tagging all of my photos and media (as noted in this post ) , and with my ego sufficiently Read More...

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Filed under: Matt Gertz, VB2005, VB2008

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Negative delays: not in VB (Lucian Wischik)
06 April 09 07:47 AM

Our recent pos t on "negative sleeps in VB" was an April Fool's joke. VB doesn't have negative sleeps, and isn't going to. But the joke's on me! Several readers wrote back to say that other languages do have negative sleeps. Tony Hoare, inventor of "Quicksort" Read More...

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Filed under: Lucian Wischik

Using "negative sleeps" to improve responsiveness in VB web apps
01 April 09 12:32 AM

[NOTE: please also read the followup to this article] .NET 4.0 will introduce many new threading and concurrency classes -- SpinLock, Parallel Linq, and ConcurrentDictionary to name but a few. The new feature that excites me the most is the ability to Read More...

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Filed under: Lucian Wischik