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Jul 5, 2007
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Slide Deck for Conquering XML with LINQ to XML Webcast [Beth Massi]

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Amanda Silver gave a great webcast Tuesday morning on LINQ to XML (if you missed it, just click the link and view it on-demand). Here is the deck she used. Happy LINQing! -Beth Massi, Program Manager VS Community VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML.pptx

Jun 29, 2007
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Sleepless from Bulgaria: an intern's first weeks in the VB team

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I started as an intern at Microsoft two weeks ago, and I thought it might be nice to share my experience with you. Not just because I love blogging, but also because I think that there are so many great things that happen here that are worth mentioning. I will try to post weekly, keeping you up to date with my thoughts on Microsoft, the VB tea...

Jun 27, 2007
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LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 4: Find all complex types in a given assembly (Kit George)

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Ingredients: -          Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) -     An assembly which you want to analyze (in this example, we use mscorlib.dll, the assembly which houses String)-     A definition for 'Complex Type'. In this instance, a complex type is define...

Jun 27, 2007
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Today's Live From Redmond Webcast Rescheduled [Beth Massi]

Beth Massi

Amanda Silver came down with a nasty sickness last night so we just had to reschedule her Live From Redmond: VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML talk for this Tuesday July 3rd. If you're already registered then you're good to go for next week and automated emails should have been sent out to notify you all of the change. If you haven't regis...

Jun 22, 2007
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LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 1: Change the font for all labels on a windows form (Kit George)

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Folks, we’re gonna start a ‘cookbook’ of LINQ entries, which we’ll be building over time. This is just meant to be a series of solutions to specific scenarios, that the team comes across when writing code and using queries. I can't think of a better way to communicate everything you might use LINQ for! The point of the ...

Jun 15, 2007
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Closures in VB Part 4: Variable Lifetime

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For previous articles in this series please see Sorry for the long delay between posts here.  We're getting Orcas out the door and getting this series completed takes a back seat to shipping.  Originally I wanted to talk about looping structures next.  However when I started writing that post I realized that I had to talk about li...

Jun 13, 2007
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Live From Redmond Webcast Just Added on LINQ to XML (Beth Massi)

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Back by popular demand! Amanda Silver will be presenting Live From Redmond: VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML on June 27th. In Visual Basic 9.0, XML becomes a built-in data type with a rich editing experience that completely eliminates the conceptual barrier between the code that you write and the XML that you’re trying to express.&n...