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Did you know? IntelliSense Everywhere (Lisa Feigenbaum)

January 8, 2008 Jan 8, 2008 01/8/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
I've decided to start a "Did you know?" series with tips & tricks. First off is my favorite IDE feature in VB2008: IntelliSense Everywhere! Did you know about all the new places where you can now find intelliSense in VB2008? If you're like me, once you try 2008 IntelliSense you won't be able to go back to 2005. VB's mission statement is to...

Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 7: UNION, TOP, Subqueries (Bill Horst)

January 8, 2008 Jan 8, 2008 01/8/08
VBTeam
This 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, Part 4: ...

Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion – New Chapters (Young Joo)

January 7, 2008 Jan 7, 2008 01/7/08
VBTeam
Happy new year!  Hope you enjoyed your holiday break!  And hopefully you found some time to read Petzold's book and try out VB samples we've posted so far.  :)Evan and Ged had been working very hard to convert rest of chapters throughout December and I just posted Chapters 13 - 24 to Applications = Code + Markup (...

VB2008 Outperforms VB2005! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

January 4, 2008 Jan 4, 2008 01/4/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Looking for another reason to upgrade to 2008? How about performance! In addition to making tasks easier for you from release to release, another way we can save you time and make you more productive is by making the product faster! This is a goal we are very commited to on the VB team, and for which we have dedicated an entire ...