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Sshhh… it’s a secret (Matt Gertz)

December 27, 2008 Dec 27, 2008 12/27/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Back in seventh grade, I had a pretty heavy crush on a girl named Melissa.  She was a good friend of mine, and so I had no problems talking to her.  However, being painfully shy back then, I was far too nervous to ever ask her to “go with” me.  (For those not steeped in American traditions, to “go with” a girl or boy in ...

Announcing 10-4! Weekly video podcasts on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

December 25, 2008 Dec 25, 2008 12/25/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
The Visual Studio and .NET Framework evangelism team has announced 10-4, a new video podcast. 10-4 will feature different capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 every week! To get the episodes, visit the show's new home on Channel9:  https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/ There you will also have the option to ...

Visual Studio: Snow Edition

December 19, 2008 Dec 19, 2008 12/19/08
VBTeam
(image) There was lots of snow today. The Microsoft campus was almost empty as everyone worked from home. This picture shows what it's like to develop Visual Studio in the snow... Wallpaper sized: http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/vbdev/vs_snow_1600x1200.jpg (378k)Widescreen: http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/vbdev/vs_snow_1920x1200.jpg...

Community Article: Scaling ADO.NET DataTables (Beth Massi)

December 18, 2008 Dec 18, 2008 12/18/08
Beth Massi
We we released a new community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by one of our MVPs, Jeff Certain, called Scaling ADO.NET DataTables. In this article Jeff shows shows us how to query and aggregate data using the built in DataTable methods as well as LINQ to DataSets. He compares the performance on indexed and non indexed ...