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Tutorial: Functional Programming with Visual Basic 9.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 24, 2008 Nov 24, 2008 11/24/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Using Visual Basic, and thinking about Functional Programming? Here's an excerpt from Eric White's blog, explaining why you should: Functional Programming (FP) has the potential to reduce program line count by 20% to 50%, reduce bugs and increase robustness, and move us in the direction of taking advantage of multiple core ...

TechEd Barcelona: Session Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)

November 10, 2008 Nov 10, 2008 11/10/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
I'm here at TechEd Barcelona, and the week has gotten off to a great start. Jason Zander did the keynote this afternoon, and announced lots of great tooling support that will be included in Visual Studio 2010! Exciting stuff.I have 4 sessions here, starting tomorrow. I've attached the materials at the end of this post, in case ...

Visual Basic at TechEd SouthEast Asia (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 3, 2008 Sep 3, 2008 09/3/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
This is a follow-up to my presentations at TechEd SouthEast Asia. Please find all the descriptions and materials for the presentations on the following resource page: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techedsea Here are some direct links to the materials: TLA 314 - Visual Basic 2008 Tips and Tricks TLA 323 - Best Practices for the VB9.0 and ...

Visual Basic at TechEd South Africa 2008 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 2, 2008 Sep 2, 2008 09/2/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Thanks to those of you who attended my sessions at TechEd South Africa 2008. As promised here are the presentation materials I used, so you try out the examples yourself! I've created a Code Gallery resource page to host the material, with all the session abstracts, powerpoints, and solutions. That resource page is available here: ...

VB 2008 Language Deep Dive – Presentation Materials (Jonathan Aneja)

August 21, 2008 Aug 21, 2008 08/21/08
VBTeam
Last week I got the chance to visit the Toronto .NET User Group and give a talk on all the great new language features in VB2008.  It was great to see so much excitement around LINQ and especially XML Literals!   The slides and demo code are posted at the link below; here’s the session abstract (with links inserted so you can find ...

Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)

June 30, 2008 Jun 30, 2008 06/30/08
Beth Massi
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9. (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly recommend this article which shows you from the beginning how XML literals, embedded ...

Come hear about VB 2008 Tips & Tricks at TechEd US! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

June 4, 2008 Jun 4, 2008 06/4/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
The VB team has two great sessions coming up on Wednesday June 4th, covering tips & tricks for the language and IDE. Abstracts are below. Hope to see you there!TLA319 Microsoft Visual Basic 2008: Microsoft LINQ Language Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices Wednesday, June 4 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, S220 E  Speaker(s): Amanda Silver Track(s): ...

LINQ Deep Dive and Best Practices Presentation Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum)

May 15, 2008 May 15, 2008 05/15/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
I presented the following talk this week at VSLive! Orlando 2008:Visual Studio 2008: LINQ Deep Dive and Best PracticesLINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a key platform innovation introduced with Visual Studio 2008 which brings SQL-style query expressions into VB and C# enabling you to describe what data to reason about instead of how to ...