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New WPF How Do I Videos Released! (Beth Massi)

November 4, 2008 Nov 4, 2008 11/4/08
Beth Massi
I posted two more WPF "Forms over Data" videos onto the Developer Center that you should check out. How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF? - learn how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.How Do I: Create a Master-Detail Data Entry Form in WPF? - learn how to create a master-...

Shell Games (Matt Gertz)

October 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008 10/31/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
I was once temporarily taken off the VB team to get an unrelated project back on track, just a mere handful of weeks before it was due to ship.  I won’t go into the gory details; suffice it to say that we had reason to believe that the product would have to ship without delay, and that any major failure in the deliverable could ...

Community Article: Enabling Speech Recognition in Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi)

October 23, 2008 Oct 23, 2008 10/23/08
Beth Massi
If you missed it, this week a new community submitted article was released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and the Office Development with Visual Studio Portal by Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole. In this article learn how to control the Vista operating system's speech recognition engine in .NET from a custom task pane in Microsoft ...

VB Video Tutorials on ASP.Net Dynamic Data (Lisa Feigenbaum)

October 11, 2008 Oct 11, 2008 10/11/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Bill Burrows, VB MVP, has released some great videos on the ASP.Net Dynamic Data features that were added in VS2008 SP1. What is Dynamic Data?"ASP.Net Dynamic Data provides a framework that enables you to quickly build a functional data-driven application, based on a LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework data model. It also adds great flexibility ...

VB Catch … When: Why so special?

October 9, 2008 Oct 9, 2008 10/9/08
VBTeam
The VB Catch syntax has a unique feature: When.  It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type.  Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception. Newsgroups often ask, "Why's this so special? I could effectively get the same behavior out of C# by doing the ...

VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 6: Writing an XSLT Transform in VB (Doug Rothaus)

October 6, 2008 Oct 6, 2008 10/6/08
VBTeam
Most XSLT programmers are familiar with this XSLT transform to copy an XML file. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>     <xsl:template match="@* | node()"> ...

Looking for Setup and Deployment Project Templates? (Mary Lee)

October 2, 2008 Oct 2, 2008 10/2/08
VBTeam
Let's say that you've developed an application using the free Visual Studio Express Edition. Now, you want to deploy your application to the masses, and you read documentation about How to: Create or Add Deployment Projects. Here's how the topic starts: To create a new deployment project In this example, I'm using Visual Basic 2008 ...

Did you know? 300+ Visual Studio Tips & Tricks (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 22, 2008 Sep 22, 2008 09/22/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
Did you know that Sara Ford just recently passed the 300 mark for her Visual Studio Tips & Tricks? Sara used to be a tester on the Visual Studio Core IDE team, and knows the IDE inside and out! I remember the first time I met Sara was 4 years ago when she was writing some automation and called to find out the expected ...

Building a Zune Playlist (Matt Gertz)

September 20, 2008 Sep 20, 2008 09/20/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Well, that was… intense. You may have noticed the lack of articles coming from my direction.  I have been so buried in work, and so far behind, that when I look forwards all I see is backwards.  I work, I drive home, I work some more, and it all seems to keep piling up.  I would like to say that this is going to change soon, ...

Are you using the ASP.Net MVC Framework with Visual Basic? (Lisa Feigenbaum)

September 8, 2008 Sep 8, 2008 09/8/08
Lisa Feigenbaum
If so here's a great tutorial video for you to check out, by VB MVP Bill Burrows:http://www.myvbprof.com/2007_version/MVC_P4_Tutorial.aspxHere's a description of the tutorial: "This tutorial covers an overview to the MVC pattern using MVC Preview 4 and Visual Basic. It highlights the changes in the MVC model since the release of Preview 1 and ...