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Visual Basic XML Transform – TechEd demo prep

June 6, 2007 Jun 6, 2007 06/6/07
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Hello from Orlando! I’ve been at TechEd 2007 this week in very sunny Orlando. As part of my demo prep, I had to create a little xml transform to convert the TechEd schedule that I got off the www.msteched.com website in an Excel XML format into a more readable xml file format. I could have done this all with one transform, but the newer XML ...

Bill & Steve (Jobs!) reminisce about floating point BASIC

May 31, 2007 May 31, 2007 05/31/07
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Another entry in the annals of BASIC history today…. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs sat down for an interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg of All Things Digital for the D5 conference. One of the highlights of the video is recalling the agreement Apple struck with Microsoft for a version of BASIC which supported floating point numbers...

AmandaS' LINQ talk at VSLive Orlando

May 8, 2007 May 8, 2007 05/8/07
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I escaped from Redmond this week to present at VSLive Orlando on LINQ in Visual Studio Orcas. As promised, please find the slides and demos included as an attachment below. As mentioned during the talk – that was intended to be an overview. If you want really want to understand the nitty-gritty details behind what make LINQ possible, be ...

What do the announcements at Mix mean for the Visual Basic developer?

May 1, 2007 May 1, 2007 05/1/07
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At the Mix conference today in Las Vegas, Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie were dropping goodies like tootsie pops from a piñata. There was so much packed into their over two hour keynote that I thought it would be useful to distill the announcements down into one bite-sized post that should make for a pretty quick read (but unfortunately, ...

So, you're going to Mix?

April 27, 2007 Apr 27, 2007 04/27/07
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Now that Orcas Beta1 is on your machines, we’re trying to finish up the Beta2 version of Orcas to deliver those features you are so eagerly awaiting – features like Group By, explicit Joins, Nullable, keyword Intellisense, and Lambda Expressions. Things are looking very good as you probably witnessed in Kit’s web cast just the other day...

Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild! (Amanda Silver)

April 19, 2007 Apr 19, 2007 04/19/07
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Woohoo! Its official, we finally got Orcas Beta1 out the door! We’re very excited to get this release out to you so we can finally talk about some of the stuff we’ve been working on in addition to the LINQ and XML feature-set. We believe that Orcas Beta1 displays all of the essential value in the Orcas product but it’s important to keep ...

New VB9 Bloggers

March 16, 2006 Mar 16, 2006 03/16/06
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By Amanda Silver  I just wanted to let you know that we’re working furiously on turning the VB9 features into an actual product, understanding how the debugger and editor should support them, and getting another CTP out to you all. Your feedback so far as been invaluable.  Hopefully you’ll see that we’ve ...

NEW VB LINQ CTP: Now live on MSDN!

January 23, 2006 Jan 23, 2006 01/23/06
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By Amanda Silver I’m very excited to announce that the next tech preview of Visual Basic 9.0 which includes support for Language INtegrated Query (codename LINQ) and XML integration atop the XLinq API is now available on the VB Future and the LINQ project websites. This is the result of a ton of hard work for a significant portion ...