October 2007 - Posts

Silverlight Ux Musings: Controlling Alignment of UI Elements [Corrina Barber]
30 October 07 02:14 PM

This is my first post on the VB blog! I’m a designer on the team with a background in visual and interaction design, and I also have some .NET coding experience. I plan to start blogging on the VB blog on a regular basis, and my goal is to share some Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Corrina Barber

Let the Music Play! (Matt Gertz)
30 October 07 12:05 PM

Oh, boy. Sorry I haven’t written any posts lately, but I’ve transitioned to a new job within Visual Studio and have been getting my sea legs there. One of the job tasks is getting Visual Studio 2008 out to you folks, and while I’ve always been involved Read More...

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Filed under: Matt Gertz, VB2005, VB2008

Channel 9 Interview: Matt Gertz Plays Cards with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)
23 October 07 03:09 PM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Matt Gertz , Development Manager on the Visual Basic team (well former Dev Manager, I'll let him explain <g>) where he shows off a Euchre game he's developed in Visual Basic that includes speech and sound. Read More...

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Filed under: Matt Gertz, Beth Massi

Visual Basic 9.0 Language Specification Released (Beth Massi)
19 October 07 08:03 AM

The Beta 2 version of the Visual Basic Language specification has been released onto the download center. This language specification corresponds to the version of Visual Basic that will ship in Visual Studio 2008. The spec covers the following major Read More...

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Filed under: Paul Vick, Beth Massi, VB2008

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 9: Dynamic Sort Order (Doug Rothaus)
17 October 07 10:20 AM

Ingredients: · Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ-To-XML Introduction: You can use the Order By clause to easily sort the results of a LINQ query in Visual Basic. A common requirement for sorted data, however, is that the user be able Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, VB2008, LINQ Cookbook, Doug Rothaus

A Note about Enums (Scott Wisniewski)
15 October 07 02:32 PM

I recently received an email from a customer who had a few questions about "enum inheritance" in VB, specifically as to why it wasn't supported. In particular, he sent us the following snippet of VB code (I've changed the names of the classes and methods Read More...

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Filed under: Scott Wisniewski, VB2005, VB2008

Continued search for Small Business Developers and Chapter 2 of Petzold's book (finally!)
13 October 07 08:28 AM

I've attached the chapter 2 Visual Basic.NET code for the ongoing project of converting Peztold's Applications = Code + Markup book on WPF proramming. I am happy to say that Young from my team is going to help with this effort so you will see these chapters Read More...

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Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Patrick Dengler, WPF, SMB

Attachment(s):Chapter02.zip

Visual Studio Content - Tell Us What You Think! (Beth Massi)
11 October 07 10:26 AM

The documentation team has just released a survey aimed at gathering feedback on Visual Studio content. Are you dying to tell us what you think about the Visual Studio content in the MSDN library? Please share your perspective by taking part in the Visual Read More...

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Filed under: Kathleen McGrath, Beth Massi

Channel 9 Interview - Offline Data Synchronization Services in Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi)
10 October 07 09:39 AM

I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Milind Lele showing us his favorite VS 2008 features - the new Data Synchronization designer and how the sync services for ADO.NET work to support occasionally connected scenarios. He shows us how to set up a local Read More...

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Filed under: Orcas, Beth Massi, Milind Lele

Why you should learn WPF (and how I can help)
06 October 07 06:00 AM

A few weeks ago I mentioned I was working on a side project. Well, then the soccer, tennis, and school season hit and..well I won't tell you the rest. What I had started to do was take all of the samples in Charles Petzold's book Applications = Code + Read More...

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Filed under: Paul Yuknewicz, Silverlight, VB2008, Patrick Dengler, WPF, SMB

Attachment(s):AppsCodeMarkup_VB.zip

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 8: Querying XML Using LINQ (Doug Rothaus)
01 October 07 11:02 AM

Ingredients: · Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ-To-XML Instructions: · Create a new Console Application in Visual Basic. · Create an RSS document. Add the following code to Sub Main . Dim rss = <? xml version = " 1.0 " ?> < Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Orcas, VB2008, LINQ Cookbook, Doug Rothaus