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Web-scraping using Visual Basic's XML support

February 20, 2009 Feb 20, 2009 02/20/09

VBTeam

We've just had a fascinating article about using VB's XML literals to produce web pages.I've been interested in the other side of the process: using VB's XML support to scrape web-pages for data. Here's the essential bit of code, which looks for something like <div class="content"><h2>Title</h2> <table><tr&...

Channel 9 Interview: ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals (Beth Massi)

February 16, 2009 Feb 16, 2009 02/16/09

Beth Massi

Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET. In this interview he shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. Dmitry shows us how this makes coding the views much cleaner using standard OOP principals. He also makes some very ...

An Updated Screensaver Example (Matt Gertz)

January 23, 2009 Jan 23, 2009 01/23/09

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

I’ve just completed a task that I set out to do about five years ago, and I am pretty proud (and tired)! I have just finished scanning in every single photo that I’ve acquired over my 40+ years of life, fixing up their dates to reflect the date when the picture was taken, not when it was scanned. Furthermore, I have tagged ...

New WPF "How Do I" Video on Formatting Data Entry (Beth Massi)

January 6, 2009 Jan 6, 2009 01/6/09

Beth Massi

Today we released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry forms using the IValueConverter like I showed on my blog here. The IValueConverter allows you full control over the display of the data as well as the editing of that data by users in the controls. Check out all the WPF Forms over Data videos ...

Happy New Year! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

January 2, 2009 Jan 2, 2009 01/2/09

Lisa Feigenbaum

On behalf of the Microsoft Visual Basic team, I'd like to wish all of our readers a happy & healthy new year. We truly enjoy getting to know you through your comments and emails, so here's an opportunity to say "thanks"! (image) (image) As we move forward to 2009, I thought...