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Ingredients: - Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and WinForms Instructions: CheckedListBox1.Items.AddRange( _ New String() {"Apple", "Orange", "Banana", _ "Avocado", "Tomato", "Tamarillo", _ "Kiwifruit", "Cherry"}) &nbs...
I hate going so long without blogging, but it’s getting really busy around here as we get closer to the endgame for Visual Studio 2008. That, combined with “review time,” creates a bit of a problem for writing apps for the blog, and I wasn’t able to give it much attention until last night. Realizing I really need...
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...
Ingredients:- Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ-To-Objects Instructions:- Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/New Project’. Find and double-click the ‘Console Application’ Icon-...
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...
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...
Ingredients:- Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)- Some text you want to search Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and strings, LINQ and WinForms Instructions:- Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/...
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 ...
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...
Lisa Feigenbaum gave a great webcast this morning on LINQ best practices (if you missed it, just click the link and view it on-demand). Here is the deck and the samples she used. Please Note: The sample code is based on a more recent build of Visual Studio 2008 so some of the Join syntax may not work in Beta 1. We felt it important...