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Linking Zune media items with LinQ, Part 2 (Matt Gertz)
07 November 09 08:00 AM
In this post, I’ll continue on with coding the new playlist shuffler. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, I highly recommend it so that this post will make more sense. J Code for the controls (continued) The Title TextBox When the title changes, we’ll want Read More...
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Linking Zune media items with LinQ, Part 1 (Matt Gertz)
06 November 09 02:17 PM
Way back in October 2007, I wrote up a few posts ( here and here ) on my experiments with the Windows Media Player object model. The problem I was trying to solve was that, when I had a playlist set to “shuffle,” WMP would break up songs that should always Read More...
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XML Literals, WCF and LINQ Article by Steele Price (Lisa Feigenbaum)
02 May 09 02:02 PM
Steele wrote a great article in last month's issue of Visual Studio Magazine on XML Literals, WCF and LINQ. He shows how to use these three technologies together to produce more responsive ASP.NET pages, and more readable code. Lots of great tips for Read More...
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MIX 09 Video: Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic (Alex Turner, Lisa Feigenbaum)
19 March 09 02:06 PM
Alex Turner presented VB XML yesterday here at MIX 09. Check out the video from his session! Video link: http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T72M (The powerpoint slides are attached.) Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic 9 MIX09-T72M Read More...
Channel 9 Interview: ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals (Beth Massi)
16 February 09 12:22 PM
Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET. In this interview he shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. Dmitry shows us how this makes Read More...
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Panel: Developers moving to VB.Net for projects using XML (Lisa Feigenbaum)
25 November 08 03:54 PM
Visual Basic 9.0 introduces a feature called XML Literals , which makes programming against XML a lot more natural, and dramatically decreases the number of lines of code you need to write. In fact, it makes working with XML in Visual Basic *so* much Read More...
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TechEd Barcelona: Session Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)
10 November 08 11:33 AM
I'm here at TechEd Barcelona, and the week has gotten off to a great start. Jason Zander did the keynote this afternoon, and announced lots of great tooling support that will be included in Visual Studio 2010! Exciting stuff. I have 4 sessions here, starting Read More...
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Visual Basic at TechEd SouthEast Asia (Lisa Feigenbaum)
03 September 08 02:29 PM
This is a follow-up to my presentations at TechEd SouthEast Asia. Please find all the descriptions and materials for the presentations on the following resource page: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techedsea Here are some direct links to the materials: Read More...
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Visual Basic at TechEd South Africa 2008 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
02 September 08 03:22 PM
Thanks to those of you who attended my sessions at TechEd South Africa 2008. As promised here are the presentation materials I used, so you try out the examples yourself! I've created a Code Gallery resource page to host the material, with all the session Read More...
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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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Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beth Massi)
15 August 08 02:23 PM
Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao , a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element Read More...
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Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)
30 June 08 05:30 PM
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 . (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly 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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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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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 3: Identity Transforms (Doug Rothaus)
25 April 08 11:19 AM
An identity transform in XSLT does just what the name implies: replace the identity of an element or attribute with a new identity. Identity transforms are especially critical when dealing with XML markup that is less rigid in its structure. Consider Read More...
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