A group blog from members of the VB team
March 31, 2008Mar 31, 200803/31/08All – 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
March 28, 2008Mar 28, 200803/28/08After some hard but fruitful work, we’ve just finished our “milestone quality” (MQ) efforts, the goal of which was to get ourselves ready for developing the next versions of Visual Studio, Team System, and .NET. Although not specific to Visual Basic,
March 28, 2008Mar 28, 200803/28/08Over the last few months, the VB and Data Programmability teams were working on fixing a performance problem with LINQ to SQL (which also manifested in LINQ to Entities). The issue was that LINQ to SQL was generating sub optimal T-SQL queries when the VB LINQ queries included filters over nullable columns.
March 24, 2008Mar 24, 200803/24/08Last week I had the privilege of speaking in Lisbon, Portugal & Birmingham, England at launch events for Visual Studio 2008. There seemed to be a lot of buzz and excitement in the air at both events — no doubt due to the recent release of Visual Studio.
March 24, 2008Mar 24, 200803/24/08I recently ran into an interesting threading problem that I wanted to share, so that perhaps I can save some people from the same confusion I had.
I started with a C# application someone else had written. I’ll call it “DeltaEngine”
March 24, 2008Mar 24, 200803/24/08If you missed it, last week 48 new How Do I videos (Forms over data, Windows development, Office development and Security) were added to the Visual Basic Developer Center in addition to adding new download formats for 12 others. Many thanks to Rob Windsor,
March 23, 2008Mar 23, 200803/23/08One more set of control skins is up and ready for use. I had hoped to have two ready, but one set needed some additional tweaking work that I can’t get to until I return to Seattle on 4/14.
This new set is very rough and organic in appearance and maybe even a bit esoteric,
March 23, 2008Mar 23, 200803/23/08I wanted to let you know about a hotfix we recently released that may help solve some performance issues you may have run into using Visual Studio 2008.
Details
The hotfix is a 3.98MB download and can be found at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946344
March 20, 2008Mar 20, 200803/20/08MVP Maurice de Beijer is at it again with another great article on Workflow Foundation (WF), this time showing us how to create custom workflow activities in “The Power of Custom Workflow Activities (Part 1)“. This is the first of a two part series on how to create custom activities but if you need to get started with an intro first you can check out his Workflow Foundation 101 article as well.
March 19, 2008Mar 19, 200803/19/08This 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 to child nodes and attributes.
