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How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? (Kathleen McGrath)
28 August 08 03:42 PM
With the release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you can now add smart tags to Excel by using an add-in. In this video, I show you how to add them to both a document-level customization and an add-in project. How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks? This Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beth Massi)
22 August 08 05:00 PM
Today I posted another Channel 9 interview on SP1. This time, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team is back demonstrating new improvements to the "Go To Definition", "Find All References" and Rename capabilities in the editor when 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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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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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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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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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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