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VB Video Tutorials on ASP.Net Dynamic Data (Lisa Feigenbaum)
11 October 08 09:00 AM

Bill Burrows , VB MVP, has released some great videos on the ASP.Net Dynamic Data features that were added in VS2008 SP1. What is Dynamic Data? "ASP.Net Dynamic Data provides a framework that enables you to quickly build a functional data-driven application, Read More...

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Filed under: Lisa Feigenbaum, Data_Design, VB2008

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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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Data_Design, Jonathan Aneja, Extension_Methods, VB2005, Orcas, VB2008

TableAdapter and Multiple Result Sets
13 March 07 11:16 AM

Several people asked me whether TableAdapter can be used to retrieve multiple result sets from stored procedures. The quick answer is... No, you can't do that with TableAdapter.Fill() method that gets generated as a part of Typed Dataset. But there's Read More...

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Filed under: Data_Design, VB2005, Young Joo

New Data Tools Features in Visual Studio Orcas
13 March 07 11:09 AM

Here's a list of new data tools features in Visual Studio. I will be discussing each one in more detail in upcoming posts. Object Relational Designer The object relational mapping technology lets you map relational databases to objects. Once the mapping Read More...

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Filed under: Data_Design, Orcas, Young Joo

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Visual Basic 2005 Command-line Compiler (VBC.exe) Hotfix Released!
03 January 07 10:46 AM

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is now available for download. We’d like to thank everyone in the Visual Basic community for providing feedback on SP1 and helping us identify and address issues for this service pack. In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed Read More...

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Check out "Live from Redmond series #3" from the .NET FX product teams
10 October 06 04:27 PM

The .NET Framework teams are providing several Live Meeting presentations spanning application technologies like Smart Clients, Web 2.0 (AJAX) and Mobile. Check out SimonMu 's blog for more information: http://blogs.msdn.com/simonmu/archive/2006/10/09/The-next-series-of-team-member-Live-From-Redmond-webcasts.aspx Read More...

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Filed under: Paul Yuknewicz, Data_Design, VB2005, Web

EMEA Tour Followup
20 April 06 03:55 PM

PaulYuk and I just returned from the EMEA tour where we demoed tons of new VB 2005 features to groups in Brussells, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Belfast, and Dublin. Here (as promised) are links to more information on what I presented. If you didn't make it Read More...

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Filed under: Paul Yuknewicz, IDE, Data_Design, VB2005, VB6_Migration/Interop

New VB9 Bloggers
16 March 06 06:02 PM

By Amanda Silver I just wanted to let you know that we’re working furiously on turning the VB9 features into an actual product, understanding how the debugger and editor should support them, and getting another CTP out to you all. Your feedback so far Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, IDE, Data_Design, Orcas

NEW VB LINQ CTP: Now live on MSDN!
23 January 06 10:14 AM

I’m very excited to announce that the next tech preview of Visual Basic 9.0 which includes support for Language INtegrated Query (codename LINQ) and XML integration atop the XLinq API is now available on the VB Future and the LINQ project websites. This is the result of a ton of hard work for a significant portion of the team and we’re very happy to get it out to you. Read More...

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

Visual Basic 2005 is now available!
07 November 05 04:00 PM

Today is the official launch day of the new version of Visual Basic: This page links to the relevant information (how to get it, what's new, etc…) http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ You can also download the FREE Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition from Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, IDE, Data_Design