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Did you know? Ctrl+Tab to navigate windows in VS (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Just like Alt+Tab for Windows you can use Ctrl+Tab for Visual Studio. Ctrl+Tab will show you the active tool windows *and* the active files, so it is a good navigation tool for both. VS2008 has even added a cool miniature-sized visualization to this view, so that you can better determine which item you're after. Windows: Visual Studio:
Did you know? IntelliSense is now transparent in VS2008! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
With the help of one little hotkey, you can now make the VS2008 IntelliSense list transparent! Just press CTRL. This is especially convenient when you need to see the code underneath the list. Watch it in action :)
Did you know? IntelliSense Everywhere (Lisa Feigenbaum)
I've decided to start a "Did you know?" series with tips & tricks. First off is my favorite IDE feature in VB2008: IntelliSense Everywhere! Did you know about all the new places where you can now find intelliSense in VB2008? If you're like me, once you try 2008 IntelliSense you won't be able to go back to 2005. VB's mission statement is to be the most productive tool for building .NET-connected applications. The VB IDE tools certainly support this point, with intelliSense in particular. Here's a list of ways that intelliSense can make you more productive: But rather than listening to me tell you why it's...
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 7: UNION, TOP, Subqueries (Bill Horst)
This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series: Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 4: Functions Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 5: GROUP BY and HAVING Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 6: Joins This post will discuss UNION, TOP and Subqueries. Next week, I plan to cover LEFT, RIGHT and FULL OUTER JOIN more fully. If there are additional topics you’d like to see discussed related to ...
Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion – New Chapters (Young Joo)
Happy new year! Hope you enjoyed your holiday break! And hopefully you found some time to read Petzold's book and try out VB samples we've posted so far. :)Evan and Ged had been working very hard to convert rest of chapters throughout December and I just posted Chapters 13 - 24 to Applications = Code + Markup (Charles Petzold) Visual Basic Code Sample page. We also have several more chapters converted but since we have a couple of chapters missing between sets, I will hold off posting them until we have those missing chapters ready.I've also added a link to the single downlo...
VB2008 Outperforms VB2005! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Looking for another reason to upgrade to 2008? How about performance! In addition to making tasks easier for you from release to release, another way we can save you time and make you more productive is by making the product faster! This is a goal we are very commited to on the VB team, and for which we have dedicated an entire virtual team for the Orcas release. Take a look at the stats below to see some interesting improvements.[**DISCLAIMER: The data posted here is what I have observed from comparing 2 runs in our internal labs. These are my observations using two large customer solutions on a specif...
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 6: Joins (Bill Horst)
This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series: Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 4: Functions Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 5: GROUP BY and HAVING This post will discuss Cross Join, Inner Join, Natural Join and Outer (Left/Right) Joins. JOIN It’s very common to query over more than one set of data (such as a table) in the same SQL SELECT statement. Bringing together the information i...
LINQ for the Web Using VB (By Paul Yuknewicz)
Happy holidays! It's been a long time since I've written a post, so I figure I can bring in the new year answering some great questions submitted by you. Just this week someone gave me this feedback: "I am having a difficult time finding information to help me adapt to LINQ in my webforms. I am hoping that someone from the team can offer a direction. " You bet! We have a lot of attention to LINQ and Forms-over-data in VB in our learning content, but we're lacking content with attention to LINQ and Web-based Forms-over-data. There are a number of great innovations in the Web spa...
VB Love Song for the Holidays and New Year (By MS Friends of VB)
Here's a holiday present just for you -- in keeping with what has become a holiday tradition on Channel 9 we have Chris Anderson, Don Box and now our very own Amanda Silver singing you a special holiday song. You can view the full video and sample code here on Channel9 (Thanks Jeff and C9 team!):https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=367997%20%20With love,Microsoft Friends of VB