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June 2010 - Visual Basic Blog

Channel 9 Interview: Multi-Targeting Deep Dive (Beth Massi, Spotty Bowles)

June 22, 2010 Jun 22, 2010 06/22/10
Beth Massi
I’m back with Spotty Bowles, a tester on the VB compiler team, shows us the ins and outs of how multi-targeting works in Visual Basic projects in Visual Studio 2010 in this Channel 9 interview: Channel 9 Interview: Multi-Targeting Deep Dive with Visual Basic 2010What's tricky in Visual Studio 2010 is that there are now two supported ...

Productivity Improvements for the Entity Framework

June 21, 2010 Jun 21, 2010 06/21/10
VBTeam
BackgroundWe’ve been hearing a lot of good feedback on the recently released update to the Entity Framework in .NET 4. This release marks a significant advancement from the first release that shipped with .NET 3.5 SP1.  I’m not going to spend time here talking about what’s new, but you can check here to see for ...

Troubleshooting Errors When Embedding Type Information (Doug Rothaus)

June 11, 2010 Jun 11, 2010 06/11/10
VBTeam
Visual Studio 2010 has a new feature, Embed Interop Types, that can simplify application deployment and solve those pesky issues that can arise when using COM Interop and Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs). If you’ve ever had to ship multiple versions of an application that automates Microsoft Office where the only difference between your...

Removing duplicate namespaces in XML Literals (Shyam Namboodiripad)

June 9, 2010 Jun 9, 2010 06/9/10
VBTeam
A common problem that one often runs into with XML literals and the LINQ to XML API is duplicate XML namespaces. Consider the following example. The code imports a default XML namespace - “hello”.Code: Imports <xmlns="hello"> Module Module1     Sub Main()         Dim x = <A...

VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 7: Enumerating Large XML Files (Doug Rothaus)

June 7, 2010 Jun 7, 2010 06/7/10
VBTeam
VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 7: Enumerating Large XML Files (Doug Rothaus)It’s been a while since I wrote one of these XML cookbook entries. Here’s some info on a common problem: Really big XML files.I’m going to show you two things in this recipe. The first is a tip on reading very large XML files while still being able to use ...