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Hooray! Visual Basic 2008 Beta2 has been released to the wild today to return to its natural habitat – the desktops of our beloved customers. (Please note our smiling GPM's face on that landing page -- he's so happy the Beta is done.) What’s inside? So much that there might be more new features than we released in Beta1, but who’s counting? Here’s ...

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 curio...

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 interview Eri...

 Ingredients: -          Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) -          Connection to Northwind database  Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ-To-SQL Instructions:·         Create a new Windows Forms ...

This example is intended as a ‘primer’ for following recipes (so we don’t repeat the same instructions multiple times). This recipe takes you through everything you need, and assumes only that you've installed Visual Studio (and in so doing, you've installed SQLExpress). Subsequent Northwind based Linq-To-Sql recipes will poi...

Ingredients: -          Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)   Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and WinForms   Instructions: CheckedListBox1.Items.AddRange( _   New String() {"Apple", "Orange", "Banana", _   "Avocado", "Tomato", "Tamarillo", _   "Kiwifruit", "Cherry"}) &nbs...

Ingredients:-          Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ-To-Objects  Instructions:-          Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/New Project’. Find and double-click the ‘Console Application’ Icon-...

Ingredients: -          Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) -     An assembly which you want to analyze (in this example, we use mscorlib.dll, the assembly which houses String)-     A definition for 'Complex Type'. In this instance, a complex type is define...

Ingredients:-          Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)-     Some text you want to search Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and strings, LINQ and WinForms Instructions:-          Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/...

Folks, we’re gonna start a ‘cookbook’ of LINQ entries, which we’ll be building over time. This is just meant to be a series of solutions to specific scenarios, that the team comes across when writing code and using queries. I can't think of a better way to communicate everything you might use LINQ for! The point of the ...