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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...
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...
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...
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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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 2: Descendants and Ancestors (Doug Rothaus)
19 March 08 04:23 PM
This entry in the cookbook shows how you can access descendant and ancestor elements in an XML document using Visual Basic, XML Axis properties, and LINQ to XML objects. Descendants Visual Basic provides XML Axis properties that enable you to easily refer Read More...
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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 1: XML Transformations using XML Literals (Doug Rothaus)
21 February 08 12:22 PM
I was working on a blog entry about replacing XSLT transforms with Visual Basic XML Literals. As the entry progressed, I noticed that it was really, really long. So, Avner Aharoni and I talked things over and we decided to break it up into multiple entries Read More...
Channel 9 Interview: XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense (Beth Massi)
17 January 08 07:54 PM
Today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team. In this interview Avner shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard . He also shows the differences between Read More...
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Drawing Maps with Visual Basic (Scott Wisniewski)
26 November 07 11:35 AM
If you find yourself looking for something to do with your awesome new copy of Visual Studio 2008 , you should check out the December 2007 edition of MSDN magazine . It features an article, written by me, that provides a walk through on how to visualize Read More...
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