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VB Team in India

November 22, 2004 Nov 22, 2004 11/22/04

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The VB Team is coming to India next week! Alan Griver (http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata) and I will be visiting five cities for the final leg of the 2004 VB World Tour. It will be great to see India and meet up with VB developers over there.We'll be in:Bangalore: 11/30 and 12/1Mumbai: 12/1 and 12/2Chennai: 12/3 through 12/6Hyderabad: 12/7 and 12/...

Versioning Guidelines for Whidbey

November 11, 2004 Nov 11, 2004 11/11/04

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Developers in the Bay area! Next week, John Rivard, a tech lead on the Visual Basic team, will be talking about best practices and gotchas when versioning .NET assemblies. Here's the talk abstract: This presentation addresses the topic of versioning .NET assemblies. By introducing side-by-side assemblies and a side-by-side assembly store, ....

Some beta 2 feature changes

October 29, 2004 Oct 29, 2004 10/29/04

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We’ve heard a lot of great feedback from VB developers about the Whidbey product this year, in many different ways. We visited a bunch of cities on our world wide user group tour (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/worldtour); we’ve read blogs and newsgroups; held chats; and gone to conferences, among other things. And of course ...

Visual Basic Chats in October

October 8, 2004 Oct 8, 2004 10/8/04

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We're going to have two data-related Visual Basic chats on the week of October 11th, 2004. The first chat is devoted to the Windows Forms DataGrid control, where you can get answers to your questions about some of the more subtle point about the control. In the second chat, you can learn about the successor to the DataGrid and many of the ...

Why does the Typed DataSet generate FXCop violations?

September 17, 2004 Sep 17, 2004 09/17/04

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For B1 we generated typed column events and event args.  The Typed Column Events and Event Args have been cut and will be removed in Beta 2.  The scenario will still be enabled as we’ll generate an event handler when needed in the designer.  Please look for info in our team blog on B1 to B2 changes.  I hope to post ...

Custom Controls in the Data Sources Window

August 30, 2004 Aug 30, 2004 08/30/04

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This is a link to the sample that will accompany an upcoming article in CoDe magazine.  http://windowsforms.net/samples/CustomControlSample.zip In this example I demonstrate several types of objects: 1:1, 1:Many and the use of Custom Controls. Thanks,Steve ...

Transactional Update using TableAdapters

August 30, 2004 Aug 30, 2004 08/30/04

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As promised, I’ve put together a sample that demonstrates how to create a transactional update using the new Whidbey TableAdapters. http://windowsforms.net/samples/ThreeLevelUpdate.zipIn this sample I create a Parent, Child and Grandchild relationship.  The tables are named, Parent, Child and Grandchild… JUsing the sample you...

Why can’t I drag from Server Explorer to my form?

August 27, 2004 Aug 27, 2004 08/27/04

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This was one of the hardest decisions we had to make.  We know this is a very intuitive way to work.  I’ve got my database, and I want it on my form (period).BackgroundFirst, lets look at what we had in 2002, 2003.  In 2003 you could drag from Server Explorer to your form, but we didn’t give you textboxes and labels...

VB Suggestions

August 25, 2004 Aug 25, 2004 08/25/04

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I posted an update on the suggestions the VB team has received from the Product Feedback Center and what how they have been resolved. Check out my blog.http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/08/25/220317.aspxRobert GreenVB Program Manager...

New article on My

August 17, 2004 Aug 17, 2004 08/17/04

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There have been some great articles on My coming out over the past month.  This article by Jesse Liberty provides some good examples of how My services can be integrated into applications.  If you're working with the Beta, you may notice a few discrepancies between the article and the Beta bits.  For example, My....