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Today's Performance Webcast Slide Deck and Channel9 Interview (Beth Massi)

July 24, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 07/24/07
Beth Massi
The VB team thanks everyone who attended Cameron's webcast on Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008 this morning. If you missed it, you can click this link for the on-demand replay. I've attached his slides that he used in the webcast for your reference. Also check out Cameron's Channel9 interview for more information (and if you're ...

Visual Basic on Channel9 (Beth Massi)

July 21, 2007 Jul 21, 2007 07/21/07
Beth Massi
I just posted a couple screen casts/interviews on Channel9 you should definitely check out. I rounded up VB team members and influentials and asked them what their favorite Visual Studio 2008 features were and to give us all a demo of them! The first one is with Erik Meijer and he shows us his favorite feature, XML Literals:In this in ...

This Week's Live From Redmond Webcast Rescheduled [Beth Massi]

July 9, 2007 Jul 9, 2007 07/9/07
Beth Massi
We just had to reschedule Cameron's Wednesday Live From Redmond: VB9 - Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008 talk for Tuesday July 24th. If you're already registered then you're good to go and automated emails should have been sent out to notify you all of the change. If you haven't registered yet, what are you waiting ...

Today's Live From Redmond Webcast Rescheduled [Beth Massi]

June 27, 2007 Jun 27, 2007 06/27/07
Beth Massi
Amanda Silver came down with a nasty sickness last night so we just had to reschedule her Live From Redmond: VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML talk for this Tuesday July 3rd. If you're already registered then you're good to go for next week and automated emails should have been sent out to notify you all of the change. If you haven't ...

Slide Deck and Samples for LINQ Best Practices (Beth Massi)

June 13, 2007 Jun 13, 2007 06/13/07
Beth Massi
Lisa Feigenbaum gave a great webcast this morning on LINQ best practices (if you missed it, just click the link and view it on-demand). Here is the deck and the samples she used. Please Note: The sample code is based on a more recent build of Visual Studio 2008 so some of the Join syntax may not work in Beta 1.  We felt it ...

Live From Redmond Webcast Just Added on LINQ to XML (Beth Massi)

June 13, 2007 Jun 13, 2007 06/13/07
Beth Massi
Back by popular demand! Amanda Silver will be presenting Live From Redmond: VB9 - Conquering XML with LINQ to XML on June 27th. In Visual Basic 9.0, XML becomes a built-in data type with a rich editing experience that completely eliminates the conceptual barrier between the code that you write and the XML that you’re trying to ...

Visual Basic LINQ Hands On Labs for Orcas Beta 1 (Beth Massi)

June 4, 2007 Jun 4, 2007 06/4/07
Beth Massi
The VB team just posted some Hands On Labs on LINQ and LINQ to SQL for Orcas Beta 1. The first lab provides an introduction to The LINQ Project. You'll look at basic LINQ features including the Standard Query Operators, and you'll see how these features can be used against in-memory collections, connected databases, and XML documents. The ...

Visual Basic Forms over Data "How-to" video series (Beth Massi)

May 8, 2007 May 8, 2007 05/8/07
Beth Massi
Friday we posted the first 8 videos of the Visual Basic Forms over Data "How-to" video series on MSDN. If you don't have the Visual Basic Dev Center as your homepage you might have missed the headline. ;-) This how-to video series is dedicated to getting Visual Basic developers productive on areas of data-based Windows ...

Visual Basic LINQ Samples Updated for Orcas Beta 1! (Beth Massi)

April 20, 2007 Apr 20, 2007 04/20/07
Beth Massi
The Visual Basic LINQ Samples have been updated for Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1! This is a set of 101 samples that demonstrate all the features of Visual Basic's Language Integrated Query in Orcas Beta 1. Also check out the The LINQ Project page. This has been updated with links to some news articles and quote highlights ...