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TechEd Video: Future Directions for Visual Basic, by Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Aneja
20 June 09 08:35 AM
As part of the new VB/C# co-evolution strategy , Visual Studio Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg has broadened his role. In addition to being Chief Architect for C#, he now sets the direction for both the VB.NET and C# languages. At TechEd, Anders participated Read More...
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...
Spain User Group Tour: All Good Things Must Come to An End (Lisa Feigenbaum)
25 November 08 12:43 PM
After three and a half days visiting user groups through Spain, Jon and I have flown back to the US. We got to meet some great people and had lots of fun talking about VB. The slide decks that we used on the trip are attached at the end of this post. Read More...
Visual Basic en España (Lisa Feigenbaum)
17 November 08 03:04 PM
This week Jonathan Aneja and I are traveling from city to city, and presenting to VB.Net user groups in Spain. We began the tour in Barcelona where we were speaking at TechEd EMEA, and will finish in Madrid. VB MVP Pep Lluis Blano organized the entire Read More...
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Community Interview with Jonathan Aneja (Beth Massi)
10 October 08 09:00 AM
Continuing the community interviews from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time we interview Jonathan Aneja, VB Compiler Program Manager. Remember that you can take a look at the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit Read More...
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Where is the VB Team going to be over the next few months? (Lisa Feigenbaum)
28 September 08 03:26 PM
We have quite a few trips coming up over the next couple months, and we want to connect with you while we’re on the road. Here is our plan. Let us know where we can find you. ;-) October 6-7, 2008 Software Development Conference 2008 : http://www.sdc.nl/ Read More...
VB 2008 Language Deep Dive - Presentation Materials (Jonathan Aneja)
20 August 08 09:55 PM
Last week I got the chance to visit the Toronto .NET User Group and give a talk on all the great new language features in VB2008. It was great to see so much excitement a round LINQ and especially XML Literals ! The slides and demo code are posted at 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...
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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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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Option Strict [On|Off|SortOf]
25 September 07 03:29 PM
Yesterday I got a question from a developer asking whether or not we could add something called "Option Strict Warn" to the language. This would give a developer a warning when using something like late binding or an implicit conversion, rather than disabling Read More...
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Implementing Dynamic Searching Using LINQ
29 August 07 03:51 PM
A common requirement in forms-over-data applications is that users be able to search by any combination of fields to construct a dynamic query at run time. For example, the search feature in this application allows the user to find all records that meet Read More...
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Attachment(s):DynamicCondition.zip
LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 7: Selecting Pages of Data from Northwind (Jonathan Aneja)
12 July 07 10:58 AM
Ingredients: - Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) - Connection to Northwind database Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ-To-SQL Instructions: · Create a new Windows Forms project with a Northwind DataContext (for step-by-step instructions on how to do Read More...
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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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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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