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Lambdas, and Take While, and Group By, Oh My!

VBTeamJuly 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07

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 counti

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

Beth Massi - MicrosoftJuly 24, 2007Jul 24, 200707/24/07

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)

Beth Massi - MicrosoftJuly 21, 2007Jul 21, 200707/21/07

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 intervie

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 7: Selecting Pages of Data from Northwind (Jonathan Aneja)

VBTeamJuly 12, 2007Jul 12, 200707/12/07

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

Linq Cookbook, Recipe 6: Your first Linq Application using Northwind (Kit George)

VBTeamJuly 11, 2007Jul 11, 200707/11/07

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 wil

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 5: Concatenating the selected strings from a CheckedListBox (Kit George)

VBTeamJuly 3, 2007Jul 3, 200707/3/07

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"})

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 3: Find all the prime numbers in a given range (Jonathan Aneja)

VBTeamJune 28, 2007Jun 28, 200706/28/07

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’

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 4: Find all complex types in a given assembly (Kit George)

VBTeamJune 27, 2007Jun 27, 200706/27/07

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 d

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 2: Find all capitalized words in a phrase and sort by length (then alphabetically) (Kit George)

VBTeamJune 22, 2007Jun 22, 200706/22/07

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 ‘

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 1: Change the font for all labels on a windows form (Kit George)

VBTeamJune 22, 2007Jun 22, 200706/22/07

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

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