A group blog from members of the VB team
June 21, 2010Jun 21, 201006/21/10Background
We’ve been hearing a lot of good feedback on the recently released update to the Entity Framework in .NET 4. This release marks a significant advancement from the first release that shipped with .NET 3.5 SP1. I’m not going to spend time here talking about what’s new,
November 16, 2009Nov 16, 200911/16/09This one’s going to be long, but for those of you who’ve felt the first 3 in this series were too easy I promise this one’s tougher J.
Let’s say you want to list all the customers from a table in a ComboBox,
July 10, 2009Jul 10, 200907/10/09About two years ago I posted some code that shows how to dynamically construct LINQ queries at runtime. On average there’s a couple questions per month about trying it in some edge case, and usually the support already exists within the API.
March 31, 2008Mar 31, 200803/31/08All – I’m about to go on for my LINQ Deep Dive and Tips &Tricks session at VSLive in San Francisco. I posted all demos & slides here:
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=LaunchVB&ReleaseId=805
November 21, 2007Nov 21, 200711/21/07Yesterday I promised to post about the hidden gems in Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2008 that you haven’t read about in blog posts or seen at conferences. I forgot that I mentioned a few of my favorite features in the Beta1 announcement where I showed off the improvements in the Intellisense experience –
November 19, 2007Nov 19, 200711/19/07Hooray! Today we’ve finally shipped Visual Studio 2008, previously known as “Orcas”, previously known as some symbol which doesn’t have an ascii representation. We’ve come a long way, but it’s been a great ride. In his blog, Soma mentions many of the flagship features at a high-level that will undoubtedly make the every developer and head of IT salivate,
September 11, 2007Sep 11, 200709/11/07Hi there!
My name is Tim, and I’m the dev lead for the VB compiler team. Recently Amanda convinced me to blog on the VB team blog rather then my own blog for a variety of reasons, and so here I am.
August 29, 2007Aug 29, 200708/29/07A common requirement in forms-over-data applications is that users be able to search by any combination of fields to construct a dynamic query at run time. For example, the search feature in this application allows the user to find all records that meet criteria defined on multiple columns:
July 11, 2007Jul 11, 200707/11/07Here’s a link to a post I just finished on ‘How to implement IQueryable’ (create a custom Linq provider).
http://blogs.msdn.com/kevin_halverson/archive/2007/07/10/how-to-implement-iqueryable.aspx
My example project allows you to query the Windows Vista (Desktop) Search engine for files on your local machine. For example:
