June 2008 - Posts

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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Filed under: LINQ/VB9, Beth Massi, VB2008, XML

PInvoke Interop Assistant on CodePlex (Jared Parsons)
20 June 08 09:27 AM

I'm happy to announce that the PInvoke Interop Assistant tool is now available on CodePlex. This includes the binaries, source code and the dev authored unit tests. It is hosted on the more general CLR Interop Tools page. http://www.codeplex.com/clrinterop Read More...

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Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Jared Parsons, Did you know?, PInvoke

Protein is Good for You, part 2 (Matt Gertz)
17 June 08 07:30 AM

In yesterday’s blog post, I walked through an engine for translating DNA to its amino acid results via messenger RNA. In today’s blog, we’ll work on the visualization using WPF StackPanels. (This example requires VS2008, although it could certainly be Read More...

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Protein is Good for You (Matt Gertz)
16 June 08 10:21 PM

As I was preparing to graduate from the University of Michigan way back in the late eighties, I had a big decision to make regarding grad school – robotics at Carnegie Mellon, or biology at Washington State? On the one hand, biology was something I’d Read More...

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Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word (Beth Massi)
13 June 08 01:01 PM

Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center , a new article Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 from a member of our Italian .NET community, Alessandro Del Sole . The article shows how to use Visual Read More...

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TechEd US 2008: Presentation Materials for TLA325 (Lisa Feigenbaum)
05 June 08 08:11 AM

This week I presented "Microsoft Visual Basic IDE Tips and Tricks" at TechEd US 2008. Thanks to those of you who attended. The presentation materials are listed below. Slide deck 2008 solution - post demo version 2005 solution - post demo version 2008 Read More...

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Filed under: Lisa Feigenbaum, LINQ/VB9, IDE, VB2008, TechEd2008

Come hear about VB 2008 Tips & Tricks at TechEd US! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
04 June 08 12:46 AM

The VB team has two great sessions coming up on Wednesday June 4th, covering tips & tricks for the language and IDE. Abstracts are below. Hope to see you there! TLA319 Microsoft Visual Basic 2008: Microsoft LINQ Language Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, Lisa Feigenbaum, LINQ/VB9, IDE, VB2008, TechEd2008