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VB Entity Framework Samples Now Available (Lisa Feigenbaum)
18 June 09 10:45 PM
There are a lot of great Entity Framework samples on Code Gallery that you can now find available in Visual Basic .NET. This was recently announced on the ADO.NET team blog . Browse through the list below and start downloading! ADO.NET Entity Framework Read More...
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Phoning Home, revisited (Matt Gertz)
21 May 09 10:43 AM
In my post “ M. G. Phone Home ,” I discussed how to write a simple phone application for Windows Mobile, using Visual Basic, which accesses the Bluetooth service. What I didn’t discuss was how to deploy it to the phone via CAB. Since I purchased a new Read More...
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CodeRush Xpress 9.1 Beta: 59 Refactorings, 17 Consume-first providers, and Much more! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
04 May 09 08:07 PM
Very exciting news! Developer Express is coming out with a new version of the FREE add-in we all know today as Refactor! . The new product, CodeRush XPress, builds on Refactor! by increasing the refactoring count to 59! It also includes a host of other 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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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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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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Channel 9 Interview: Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic (Beth Massi, Lucian Wischik)
20 March 09 12:03 PM
Today I posted a new interview on Channel 9 on using the Touchless SDK. The Touchless SDK enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. "Touch without touching." It's actually pretty cool! In this interview 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...
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Presentation Materials from Belgian TechDays 2009 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
15 March 09 01:58 PM
Last week, I gave two talks at the Belgian TechDays in Antwerp. This was my first time at the conference, and it was a great event! I've created a resource page on Code Gallery for the presentation materials from my talks: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techdays Read More...
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Veni, MIDI, Vici: Generating a simple MIDI file using VB, part 2 (Matt Gertz)
01 March 09 10:00 AM
In part 1 of this series, I constructed a pair of classes to supporting persisting MIDI data to files. In this entry, I’ll now leverage that code to support an (admittedly limited) music editor experience. Caveat : As I mentioned in the first post, I’m Read More...
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Veni, MIDI, Vici: Generating a simple MIDI file using VB, part 1 (Matt Gertz)
27 February 09 10:01 AM
As I’ve alluded to in previous blogs, music has always been a big part of my life, particularly performance music. I’ve been a clarinet and saxophone player for many years, am an avid singer, and (with the help of friends) I’ve done my best to teach myself Read More...
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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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An Updated Screensaver Example (Matt Gertz)
23 January 09 06:30 PM
I’ve just completed a task that I set out to do about five years ago, and I am pretty proud (and tired)! I have just finished scanning in every single photo that I’ve acquired over my 40+ years of life, fixing up their dates to reflect the date when the Read More...
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New WPF "How Do I" Video on Formatting Data Entry (Beth Massi)
06 January 09 01:14 PM
Today we released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry forms using the IValueConverter like I showed on my blog here . The IValueConverter allows you full control over the display of the data as well as the Read More...
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Sshhh… it’s a secret (Matt Gertz)
27 December 08 07:00 AM
Back in seventh grade, I had a pretty heavy crush on a girl named Melissa. She was a good friend of mine, and so I had no problems talking to her. However, being painfully shy back then, I was far too nervous to ever ask her to “go with” me. (For those Read More...
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