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

May 2, 2009 May 2, 2009 05/2/09
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...

Keep the Customer Satisfied (Matt Gertz)

April 13, 2009 Apr 13, 2009 04/13/09
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 ...

MIX 09 Video: Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic (Alex Turner, Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009 03/19/09
Lisa Feigenbaum
Alex Turner presented VB XML yesterday here at MIX 09. Check out the video from his session! Video link: https://channel9.msdn.com/events/mix(The powerpoint slides are attached.) Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic 9 MIX09-T72M Wednesday March 18 |11:55 AM-12:15 PM | San Polo 3401 By: Alex Turner Tags: Languages See ...

Presentation Materials from Belgian TechDays 2009 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

March 15, 2009 Mar 15, 2009 03/15/09
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...

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

February 16, 2009 Feb 16, 2009 02/16/09
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 ...

An Updated Screensaver Example (Matt Gertz)

January 23, 2009 Jan 23, 2009 01/23/09
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 ...