A group blog from members of the VB team
July 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07Hooray! 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?
July 24, 2007Jul 24, 200707/24/07The 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.
July 21, 2007Jul 21, 200707/21/07I 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!
July 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 Forms project with a Northwind DataContext (for step-by-step instructions on how to do this please see Recipe #6)
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July 11, 2007Jul 11, 200707/11/07This 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).
July 3, 2007Jul 3, 200707/3/07Ingredients:
– Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)
Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and WinForms
Instructions:
Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/New Project’. Create a new Windows Forms Application project
From the toolbox, drag a CheckedListBox to the main form,
June 28, 2007Jun 28, 200706/28/07Ingredients:
– 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
– Add the following code:
Module Module1
Sub Main()
June 27, 2007Jun 27, 200706/27/07Ingredients:
– 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 defined as having more than 10 public methods,
June 22, 2007Jun 22, 200706/22/07Ingredients:
– 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/New Project’. Find and double-click the ‘Windows Forms Application’
June 22, 2007Jun 22, 200706/22/07Folks, 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!
