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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

Channel9 Interview: Scott Wisniewski on Extension Methods in Visual Basic 9.0 (Beth Massi)
03 August 07 09:46 AM

I just posted an interview with Scott on Channel9 where he talks about extension methods, a new language feature in Visual Basic 9.0: In this in interview Scott Wisniewski , a Developer on the Visual Basic Team, talks about Extension Methods and shows Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, Beth Massi, VB2008

Lambdas, and Take While, and Group By, Oh My!
26 July 07 10:02 AM

Hooray! Visual Basic 2008 Beta2 has been released to the wild today to return to its natural habitat – the desktops of our beloved customers. (Please note our smiling GPM's face on that landing page -- he's so happy the Beta is done.) What’s inside? So Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, Paul Vick, LINQ/VB9, IDE, Scott Wisniewski, Orcas, VB2008

Shameless Plug (Scott Wisniewski)
12 July 07 04:47 PM

If you get a chance, you should check out the August 2007 edition of MSDN Magazine. In addition to its usual array of awesome goodies, this month's edition features a super cool Basic Instincts column, written by me. In it I discuss the design of Query Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, Orcas

What is the difference between VB 9, VBx and Silverlight? (Scott Wisniewski)
07 June 07 06:58 PM

I recently received an email from a customer asking for clarification as to what the difference was between VB 9 , VBx and Sliverlight . In particular, it seems as if we have been releasing so much information about cool new stuff that at least a few Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, VB2005, Orcas, DLR, Silverlight, Web

Extension Methods Best Practices (Extension Methods Part 6)
10 March 07 03:36 PM

This is the sixth installment in my series of posts about extension methods. You can find links to the rest of the series here . Today I am going to talk about some best practices for using extension methods. Most of this content is geared toward authors Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, Extension_Methods, Orcas

Extension methods and Generics (Extension Methods Part 5)
15 February 07 01:40 PM

This is the 5th installment in my series of posts about extension methods. You can find links to the rest of the series here . Originally I had planned on discussing extension method versioning issues, but I've decided to postpone that topic to my next Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, Extension_Methods, Orcas

Extension Methods (part 3)
18 January 07 09:50 PM

In my previous 2 posts I talked about some of the benefits of extension methods and then delved into the details of our new binding rules for consuming them in your programs. Today I'm going to talk about some perils to be aware of when defining extension Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, Extension_Methods, Orcas

Extension Methods (part 2)
11 January 07 01:04 PM

In my previous post I gave a high level overview of some of the benefits of using Extension Methods in VB 9.0. Today I'm going to delve into some of the details about how to define extension methods and then use them in your programs. Defining Extension Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, Extension_Methods, Orcas

Extension methods (part 1)
05 January 07 11:59 AM

Hi. I'm Scott Wisniewski, a dev on the VB Compiler Team. I've been here for a while now (about a year and a half), but this is my first blog post. I've been spending the past seven months or so working on Orcas, and finally decided it would be a good Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Scott Wisniewski, Extension_Methods, Orcas