A group blog from members of the VB team
December 31, 2007Dec 31, 200712/31/07This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
Converting SQL to LINQ,
December 27, 2007Dec 27, 200712/27/07Happy holidays! It’s been a long time since I’ve written a post, so I figure I can bring in the new year answering some great questions submitted by you.
Just this week someone gave me this feedback: “I am having a difficult time finding information to help me adapt to LINQ in my webforms.
December 23, 2007Dec 23, 200712/23/07Here’s a holiday present just for you — in keeping with what has become a holiday tradition on Channel 9 we have Chris Anderson, Don Box and now our very own Amanda Silver singing you a special holiday song.
You can view the full video and sample code here on Channel9 (Thanks Jeff and C9 team!):https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=367997%20%20
With love,
December 19, 2007Dec 19, 200712/19/07I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman
, Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), where he attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and brilliant physicist and we have a lot of fun with vectors and matrices and VB.
December 19, 2007Dec 19, 200712/19/07Recently I did a Channel 9 interview with Beth Massi where I walked through a Visual Basic program that used Generics and Operator overloads to perform some higher mathematics. I thought I’d follow up with a post explaining the details of exactly what I did.
December 18, 2007Dec 18, 200712/18/07This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
Converting SQL to LINQ,
December 18, 2007Dec 18, 200712/18/07Ingredients:
· Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)
Categories: LINQ to Objects
Introduction:
LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 11 showed how you can use LINQ queries to perform calculations on sets of data using a set of standard aggregate functions such as Average,
December 17, 2007Dec 17, 200712/17/07Scott Hanselman posted a podcast with with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic. Check it out!
Enjoy,–Beth Massi, VS Community
December 14, 2007Dec 14, 200712/14/07I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, as he dives into LINQ to XML and XML Literals in Visual Basic 9 and explains namespace bubbling and the performance gains you may see using XML Literals.
December 13, 2007Dec 13, 200712/13/07Ingredients:
· Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)
Categories: LINQ to DataSet
Introduction:
You can use aggregate functions in LINQ queries to perform calculations on sets of data. Visual Basic includes a set of standard aggregate functions for LINQ queries: All,
