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Working with the Screensaver Starter Kit (by Irene Fan)

July 11, 2005 Jul 11, 2005 07/11/05

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(posted by Irene Fan) Hi, I'm Irene and I'm an Exploring Microsoft intern in the Visual Basic group this summer along with Greg, Seth, and Emily. As VB Explorers, we spend eight weeks here in Redmond designing and coding an application to learn about the product development process firsthand; at the same time, we experience corporate life at ...

Phlat! by Seth Capistron

July 8, 2005 Jul 8, 2005 07/8/05

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Hello World!  My name's Seth Capistron and I'm a new Explore Microsoft intern.  So far my time in Redmond has been really exciting and I'm looking forward to the rest of the summer.  For my first blog, I've decided to write about a recent talk I attended.Yesterday we went to a Microsoft Research Cool Talk on Phlat.  ...

My First Database by Greg Osefo

July 8, 2005 Jul 8, 2005 07/8/05

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   Creating my first database was a very interesting experience because I really didn't know where to begin.  In a past internship I used Visual Studio for some web applications and managing data, but never had to actually create my own database.  This summer as an MS Explorer I added an extension to a BlackJack ...

New article on customizing My

June 25, 2005 Jun 25, 2005 06/25/05

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There's a new article up on MSDN by Joe Binder about customizing the My feature in VB 2005. It covers customizing existing features like My.User and My.Computer.Network. You can also learn how to extend the My namespace and add your own members.Check it out here.(Posted by Steven Lees...

A new home for the data team (aka Steve Lasker)

June 13, 2005 Jun 13, 2005 06/13/05

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For those that have been following our team blog under the VB Team blog, we've moved to our new home @ http://blogs.msdn.com/smartclientdata/default.aspx.  Why did we move?  There were many of us that weren't that into blogging way back when.  One of our previous team members, Robert Green, set up a team blog that we could ...

What is the Generic Bootstrapper?

June 8, 2005 Jun 8, 2005 06/8/05

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(by Adam Braden)Chris Smith, an SDET on the Deployment feature team, and been burrning up the blog-o-sphere with great information on the Generic Bootstrapper.  Check out his posts regarding a description of the bootstrapper, what is a homesite, how the bootstrapper resource strings are being sim-shipped allowing you ...

Soma Blogs about Refactor!

June 8, 2005 Jun 8, 2005 06/8/05

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(posted by Adam Braden)In case you missed it, Soma blogged about our team's response to customer feedback by partnering with Developer Express to provide you all with a refactoring solution - Refactor!http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/06/03/424915.aspxIf you haven't seen it yet, it is a must to download.Enjoy,Adam ...

How to extend TableAdapter methods

May 4, 2005 May 4, 2005 05/4/05

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A number of posts have asked how to extend TableAdapters to support additional functionality.  It may be related to supporting transactions across multiple updates, or how do I set the UserId as a parameter on an update statement that isn’t represented in the DataTable?For Transactions, we don’t expose a Transaction Property ...

New Snippet Editor for beta 2!

April 29, 2005 Apr 29, 2005 04/29/05

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(Posted by Steven Lees)One of the coolest things about code snippets is that in addition to the 400 or so that we include in the VB install, you can also make your own. We just posted a beta 2 update to the Snippet Editor--check it out on http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/tools/snippeteditor/. Thanks to Sean Draine and Sarika ...

What's Wrong with Online Help? (by Adam Braden)

April 28, 2005 Apr 28, 2005 04/28/05

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If you’ve downloaded VB Express Beta2 and tried using online help, you’ll notice that your F1 help doesn’t quite seem right.  It turns out there is a problem with help sending its request in the wrong order so the least relevant topic shows up in your help window.  Folks on our team are aware of the issue and they ...