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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! Very exciting stuff. I have 4 sessions here, 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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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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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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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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LINQ Deep Dive and Best Practices Presentation Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)
15 May 08 04:45 PM

I presented the following talk this week at VSLive! Orlando 2008 : Visual Studio 2008: LINQ Deep Dive and Best Practices LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a key platform innovation introduced with Visual Studio 2008 which brings SQL-style query expressions Read More...

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VB 2008 IDE Tips & Tricks Presentation Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)
14 May 08 11:54 PM

Last week I went on a user group tour around Southern California. I've uploaded the materials from my talk: Powerpoint presentation Solution at the Start of the Demo Solution at the End of the Demo You can find these all posted together on the following Read More...

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How LINQ to Dataset works in VB (Jonathan Aneja)
14 May 08 04:52 PM

LINQ at its core requires any data source to be queryable , which basically means it must implement IEnumerable. (It’s actually a bit more complicated than that, for a full explanation see section 11.21.2 of the Visual Basic 9.0 Language Specification Read More...

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Using LINQ to Dataset in an .aspx page (Jonathan Aneja)
13 May 08 06:35 PM

Recently I got a customer question about how to use LINQ to Dataset in an .aspx file. The compiler was complaining that it couldn't find the AsEnumerable method that allows LINQ to work over a DataTable ("AsEnumerable is not a member of 'DataTable'"). Read More...

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Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 10: Like (Bill Horst)
07 May 08 04:54 PM

This post assumes you’ve read my previous Converting SQL to LINQ posts. I haven’t had much in the way of specific requests for more LINQ posts, so I’d still welcome any suggestions that people want to offer. I did get one request about how to mimic the 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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VSLive San Francisco Content (Amanda Silver)
31 March 08 02:19 PM

All - I'm about to go on for my LINQ Deep Dive and Tips &Tricks session at VSLive in San Francisco. I posted all demos & slides here: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=LaunchVB&ReleaseId=805 Read More...

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Filed under: Amanda Silver, LINQ/VB9, IDE, Extension_Methods, VB2008, IQueryable, controls