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XmlTeam via
XML Team
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11/7/2008 9:36:31 PM
In the Orcas SP1 release we released our XML Schema Explorer . In the Visual tudio 10 PDC VPC we shipped our first rev of the next set of planned features for our XML Schema Designer. Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP VPC here . Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting in more detail about the features in the CTP. - Tim Laverty PM, Data Programmability XML Tools
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Beth Massi via
Beth Massi
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11/7/2008 5:47:39 PM
When designing WPF Windows with data (or as I usually refer to them WPF "Forms") we have many options on how we want to load the data and bind our controls. Depending on where the data is coming from and how it's being used there are a lot of possibilities. DataContext "Direct" Suppose we have the following simple window defined and we've set up data binding on our text boxes to the corresponding properties on a Customer object. < Window x : Class =&quo ... [ read more ]
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Mike McIntyre [MVP Visual Basic] via
Mike McIntyre
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11/7/2008 6:02:00 AM
My .Net Journal blog posts will be made to the new vbCity blog site from now on.
Here's the link to my new blog site: Mike McIntyre's .NET Journal
RSS feed is: http://cs.vbcity.com/blogs/mike-mcintyre/rss.aspx
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XmlTeam via
XML Team
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11/6/2008 9:16:03 PM
Beth Massi and Yang Xiao did a great Channel 9 session that centered on XML Literals and the XML Schema Explorer. Check the session out here . One thing that doesn’t come across in the video is that the Explorer can be used with any XSD set, not just with XSDs associated w/ your VB project. See our previous blog posts here and here on the Schema Explorer for more detail. …and thanks to Beth & Yang for doing the video! Tim Laverty PM, Data Programmability XML Tools
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/6/2008 6:17:00 AM
In this short 10min video, I interview language architect Paul Vick about what industry trends he would think about while designing the Visual Basic language. Some of these trends have motivated features in the next version of the Visual Basic language (VB 10.0), such as interop with dynamic languages. Others are things the team is currently thinking about, and plans to address in future versions. These include concurrency, and "opening up the black box" to expose the Visual Basi ... [ read more ]
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Beth Massi via
Beth Massi
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11/5/2008 8:33:48 PM
There are over 1100 people registered for the Silicon Valley code camp this year! Wow! That's a couple hundred more than last year. This is a free event people, so there's no excuse not to come out to Foothill college this year. And it's not all Microsoft technologies (of course not --we're in Silicon Valley for heaven's sake!) so there's a lot of variety of talks and a diverse crowd of developers to network with. And people are coming from all over. The home page has an interactive Virt ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/5/2008 5:33:00 PM
"My dog has no type." "How does he smell?" " Awful! "
Two of the new features of VB10 -- array literals and multi-line lambdas -- are interesting from the language perspective because their expressions have no type! This article is for language lawyers. I remember at my very first undergraduate computer science lecture, the lecturer Frank King handed out the class list and asked for corrections. One student raised his hand, apologized for being pedantic, and said that his name had an "å ... [ read more ]
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ljw1004 via
Lucian's VBlog
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11/5/2008 5:28:00 PM
"My dog has no type." "How does he smell?" "Awful!"
This article originally was called "Expressions with no types" but that was a misleading title. This article is really about expressions which have a "quantum superposition" of several types: that's to say, the expression on its own could be one of several different types, but then the immediate context of that expression makes it collapse down to just one of those types.
Superposition types are used in two ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/4/2008 4:02:32 PM
I posted two more WPF "Forms over Data" videos onto the Developer Center that you should check out. How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF? - learn how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. How Do I: Create a Master-Detail Data Entry Form in WPF? - learn how to create a master-detail (or one-to-many) data entry form in WPF using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Subscribe to the How Do I video ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/3/2008 7:06:00 PM
In this video, I interviewed language architect Paul Vick about what new language features are coming in the next release of Visual Basic. We talked about auto-implemented properties, collection initializers, statement lambdas, removal of the line continuation feature, and more. These features were recently announced at last week's Professional Developers Conference.
Visual Basic 10: New Features (video)
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Beth Massi via
Beth Massi
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11/3/2008 6:50:05 PM
I posted two more WPF "Forms over Data" videos onto the Developer Center that you should check out. How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF? - learn how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. How Do I: Create a Master-Detail Data Entry Form in WPF? - learn how to create a master-detail (or one-to-many) data entry form in WPF using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Subscribe to the How Do I video ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/3/2008 5:00:34 PM
Here's a community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time with Lucian Wischik, a Developer on the team. I'm just getting to know Lucian but he is a very interesting and bright person who is just a pleasure to talk with (I hope he starts blogging a lot more ). When I told him that out Italian community had sent some interview questions over he responded to them in Italian! I feel totally lame that he speaks fluently and I don't, although he had the benefi ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/3/2008 8:48:00 AM
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) is now publicly available! It's time to try out the features that you've been hearing about from the PDC. :)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655-93D0-4476-BDA4-94CF5F8D4814&displaylang=en
Once you download the CTP, start Visual Studio and you will see a link to the CTP Walkthroughs from the Start Page. These walkthroughs are meant to guide you through the ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/3/2008 6:10:00 AM
After you discover the PDC videos online , and you watch the Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic , you may wonder what other sessions this year's PDC has to offer for the VB developer... Lots!
Here's a list of PDC sessions related to the VB language and IDE:
Scott Guthrie's speech in the 2nd day keynote:
http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN02/ (See 1hr 28min)
Scott showed the new 2010 editor in his presentation. He explained that it's built on MEF (the Micr ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/3/2008 1:48:00 AM
I recently blogged about the new VB 2010 language features announced at PDC, as well as the video available from Paul and Lucian's "VB Futures" session . Another way to learn about the new features coming out in 2010 is by watching the following Channel9 video with VB specification lead, Lucian Wischik.
Title: Lucian Wischik and Lisa Feigenbaum: What's new in Visual Basic 10 Abstract: In this demo-heavy video, Lucian shows off a number of new features in Visual Basic 10 including Co ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/3/2008 1:30:00 AM
Last week at the Professional Developers Conference , the VB and C# teams held a special dinner in honor of the VB and C# MVPs in attendance. ("MVP" = Most Valued Professional ) It was a great opportunity to connect with folks, talk about the exciting things being announced at the conference, and even hear from Visual Studio General Manager Jason Zander! VB and C# language architects Paul Vick and Anders Hejlsberg were also in attendance, as were a number of other members from the team. ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/3/2008 1:07:00 AM
This year at the Professional Developers Conference , there was a new trend called PDC badges. To fully understand the buzz, check out the following blog post and Channel9 video by Adam Kinney (badge extraordinaire):
http://adamkinney.com/blog/366/default.aspx http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Badges-We-dont-need-no-stinkin-badges/
You might have heard references to the VB badges in the "VB Futures" presentation . Here's what they looked like:
What ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/3/2008 12:59:00 AM
That's right... All sessions from last week's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles have been videotaped and made available for FREE on Channel9.
http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/
Check it out and enjoy the conference. :)
For photos, see the "PDC2008" tag on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pdc2008&m=tags&s=int
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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11/3/2008 12:20:00 AM
Didn't make it to the PDC? No problem. You can still check out the *hottest* presentation at the Professional Developers Conference this year, available publicly on demand! Paul Vick (Principal Architect) and Lucian Wischik (VB Specification Lead & Software Engineer) gave an awesome presentation on the Future of VB. The presentation included VB 2010 and beyond.
Title: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic Abstract: Hear language architect Paul Vick and specifica ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
on
11/2/2008 11:34:00 PM
Last week at the Professional Developers Conference , we made a number of very exciting announcements regarding the future of Visual Basic. Here is the list of VB 2010 features we've announced:
Collection Initializers . Initialize collections in fewer lines of code! Use the "From" keyword followed by a list, rather than successive calls to the Add method.
Dim y As New List(Of String) From {"hello", "world"}
Dim x As New Dictionary(Of String, Integer) From { ... [ read more ]
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Maurice via
Maurice de Beijer
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11/2/2008 9:58:31 AM
The PDC wasn't all hard work, we sure had some fun too . As always there where a number of product group dinners. This year the C#, VB and F# product groups joined up and had a dinner together. I am at the right bottom, check Anders sitting at the left back end of the table. Lots of other team members and MVP's where there and we had a great time! The party this year was at Universal Studio which is always a nice place to go to. Before we went there was another product gro ... [ read more ]
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Maurice via
Maurice de Beijer
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11/1/2008 10:17:52 AM
Want to download and watch all PDC content? Then there are a couple of ways to get at them. The official way if to go through the session agenda at the conference site. See https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx . You see all sessions but it takes a bit of work. Another nice way is through Channel 9 by using the following feed: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/pdc2008/RSS/?tag=videos . But the best as far as I am concerned is using the list compiled by Greg Duncan. Check this ... [ read more ]
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Rockford Lhotka via
Rockford Lhotka
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11/1/2008 1:10:16 AM
PDC 2008 was a lot of fun - a big show, with lots of announcements, lots of sessions
and some thought-provoking content. I thought I'd through out a few observations.
Not really conclusions, as those take time and reflection, so just some observations.
Windows Azure , the operating system for the cloud, is intriguing.
For a first run at this, the technology seems surprisingly complete and contains a
pretty reasonable set of features. I can easily see how web sites, XML services and
both d ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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10/31/2008 9:22:00 PM
I was once temporarily taken off the VB team to get an unrelated project back on track, just a mere handful of weeks before it was due to ship. I won’t go into the gory details; suffice it to say that we had reason to believe that the product would have to ship without delay, and that any major failure in the deliverable could create some seriously undesirable problems for both us and our customers.
In the interest of expediting the development of the product, a exte ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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10/31/2008 4:00:25 PM
This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole . This time we have Adrian Bowles (who's nickname is Spotty), a Tester on the VB Compiler. Someday Spotty will have to tell us how he got his nickname. Please check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for a link to all these interviews as well. Here's the interview with Spotty: 1. Nice t ... [ read more ]
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Paul Vick via
Paul Vick - Panopticon Central
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10/31/2008 1:11:00 PM
Now that we’re past the PDC, there are a bunch of video resources coming out on VB 10.0 and Oslo. Here’s a roundup of what’s available so far: Channel9 has a video that I did with Don and Chris on M called, “ Don Box, Paul Vick, and Chris Anderson: Introducing M ” Channel9 also has a video Don and Chris did on their own covering Oslo, “ Don and Chris explain Oslo in 5 minutes ” The Pearson folks also recorded some vidcasts they call OnMicrosoft . If you go to the previous link, you can ... [ read more ]
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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10/31/2008 12:19:14 PM
I have been maintaining a consolidated list of Entity Framework Resources on the Learn
Entity Framework website, which is the site for my book. I dubbed the site name
before we had the final name for the book, which is Programming Entity Framework,but
kept "learn" since it is shorter.
On the page there are links to relevant forums and blogs, MSDN's DevCenter,
links to podcasts and webcasts, links to resources about version 2, a list of providers
that now support Entity Framework ... [ read more ]
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Beth Massi via
Beth Massi
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10/29/2008 5:33:49 PM
What a busy week! Every time I sat down to write this blog post, someone would sit down and want to chat with me about architecture, languages or data. PDC is so big and there's so much to talk about with people and there are so many experts here. I've had a lot of folks come up to me and tell me they read this blog, so I thank them! I hadn't planned on going to PDC but I decided to drive the 5 hours down to L.A. from the Bay Area so I could spend some time with Alan. Our schedules for the ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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10/29/2008 4:00:55 PM
This past month we've been posting interviews with the team from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole . This time we have Sophia Salim, a Tester on the VB Compiler. I'm very happy to see Sophia reach out to the community and am looking forward to more interesting posts from her here . I'm always interested in what really goes on inside that compiler. Check out the Visual Basic Team page for pictures and bios and visit the home page of the Visual Basic Developer Center for ... [ read more ]
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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10/29/2008 1:21:39 PM
A spontaneous website called NotAtPDC.com just popped up which is presenting Live
Meetings for those of us who can't be at PDC and want that live interaction.
PDC is also putting all of the sessions online on Channel 9. It took me a while to
figure out how to find them so I've explained how to find the videos.
But it's all in a blog post on my DevSource blog so CLICK
HERE for the details.
[A New DevLife Post]
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Paul Vick via
Paul Vick - Panopticon Central
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10/29/2008 10:23:00 AM
Yesterday I gave my valedictory address on Visual Basic at the PDC. I think the talk went well and it was a lot of fun, if not a little sad that it’s one of the last times I’ll be giving a talk about Visual Basic. We covered a lot of exciting stuff, some of which should be familiar to readers of the blog. I’ll let people know when the video is up on the Channel9 page for the talk , should be some time today. For those of you who don’t want to sit through the talk it went something like this: ... [ read more ]
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Calvin_Hsia via
Calvin Hsia
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10/28/2008 7:02:00 PM
When running VB.Net or C# code, often it’s useful to call native code. One way is using PInvoke. (for other ways, see How fast is interop code? )
For example, you can call GetWindowText to get the title of a window. To get it’s managed signature, you can use this code from http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/GetWindowText.html
<DllImport( "User32.dll" , SetLastError:= True , CharSet:=CharSet.Auto)> ... [ read more ]
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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10/28/2008 1:03:26 AM
I was translating a threading example that I originally wrote in VB and C# was giving
me a hard time about something that made no sense.
It turned out that in C#, a delegate for a ParameterizedThreadStart must literally
use the object class in its signature.
For example in VB, I had this method
Public Sub UpcomingTripEmail( ByVal cust as Customer)
.. do some stuff End Sub
And I had no problem creating a Thread with it
Dim workerThread = New Thre ... [ read more ]
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JRoxe via
Jay Roxe
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10/28/2008 12:27:00 AM
After 5 years in DevDiv marketing, I’ve recently made a change to the Windows Mobile group where I’ll be leading a team looking at product management and product planning for the developer space. It’s bittersweet – DevDiv has been a great place to work and I’ve made a lot of friends in that group and in the community. However, there’s also a lot of opportunity in the mobile space and I’m very glad that I’m going to get to keep working with developers. Plus, I get to pla ... [ read more ]
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