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May 2, 2009
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XML Literals, WCF and LINQ Article by Steele Price (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

Steele wrote a great article in last month's issue of Visual Studio Magazine on XML Literals, WCF and LINQ. He shows how to use these three technologies together to produce more responsive ASP.NET pages, and more readable code. Lots of great tips for VB 2008.VSM's "On VB" Column: XML Literals, WCF and LINQ by Steele Price

Apr 13, 2009
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Keep the Customer Satisfied (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

As I’ve written elsewhere, the toughest critics for any work you do can always be found in your own family.  Pleased at the immense work that I’d done in scanning in and tagging all of my photos and media (as noted in this post), and with my ego sufficiently boosted by writing a screensaver in VB that would display not only the pic...

Mar 20, 2009
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Channel 9 Interview: Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic (Beth Massi, Lucian Wischik)

Beth Massi
Beth Massi

Today I posted a new interview on Channel 9 on using the Touchless SDK. The Touchless SDK enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. "Touch without touching." It's actually pretty cool! In this interview I meet up with Touchless SDK creator, Mike Wasserman and Visual Basic Spec Lead, Lucian Wischik. They e...

Mar 15, 2009
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Presentation Materials from Belgian TechDays 2009 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Lisa Feigenbaum
Lisa Feigenbaum

Last week, I gave two talks at the Belgian TechDays in Antwerp. This was my first time at the conference, and it was a great event! I've created a resource page on Code Gallery for the presentation materials from my talks: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/techdays I've included the direct links below as well. Future Directions for Visual Basi...

Mar 1, 2009
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Veni, MIDI, Vici: Generating a simple MIDI file using VB, part 2 (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

In part 1 of this series, I constructed a pair of classes to supporting persisting MIDI data to files.  In this entry, I’ll now leverage that code to support an (admittedly limited) music editor experience. Caveat:  As I mentioned in the first post, I’m sure many readers will be far more knowledgeable about MIDI than I am, and will justi...

Feb 27, 2009
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Veni, MIDI, Vici: Generating a simple MIDI file using VB, part 1 (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

As I’ve alluded to in previous blogs, music has always been a big part of my life, particularly performance music.  I’ve been a clarinet and saxophone player for many years, am an avid singer, and (with the help of friends) I’ve done my best to teach myself piano and drums.  Composition of music, however, has always been...

Feb 16, 2009
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Channel 9 Interview: ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals (Beth Massi)

Beth Massi
Beth Massi

Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET. In this interview he shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. Dmitry shows us how this makes coding the views much cleaner using standard OOP principals. He also makes some very interesti...

Jan 23, 2009
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An Updated Screensaver Example (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]

I’ve just completed a task that I set out to do about five years ago, and I am pretty proud (and tired)!  I have just finished scanning in every single photo that I’ve acquired over my 40+ years of life, fixing up their dates to reflect the date when the picture was taken, not when it was scanned.  Furthermore, I have tagged every photo o...