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Protein is Good for You, part 2 (Matt Gertz)

June 17, 2008 Jun 17, 2008 06/17/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
In yesterday’s blog post, I walked through an engine for translating DNA to its amino acid results via messenger RNA.  In today’s blog, we’ll work on the visualization using WPF StackPanels.  (This example requires VS2008, although it could certainly be written in WinForms as well with just a little bit of extra ...

Protein is Good for You (Matt Gertz)

June 17, 2008 Jun 17, 2008 06/17/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
As I was preparing to graduate from the University of Michigan way back in the late eighties, I had a big decision to make regarding grad school – robotics at Carnegie Mellon, or biology at Washington State?  On the one hand, biology was something I’d always really loved, having even intended to go to med school at one point.&...

Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion – Final Chapters (Young Joo)

January 29, 2008 Jan 29, 2008 01/29/08
VBTeam
I've just posted a final set of chapters (Chapters 25 - 31).  This completes our conversion efforts and you now have access to entire sample code from Petzold's book in VB.  I would like to thank Evan and Ged who have been working with me on this.  You guys rock!!!A few things to note: Hope you enjoy this!Thanks!Young Joo...

Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion – New Chapters (Young Joo)

January 7, 2008 Jan 7, 2008 01/7/08
VBTeam
Happy new year!  Hope you enjoyed your holiday break!  And hopefully you found some time to read Petzold's book and try out VB samples we've posted so far.  :)Evan and Ged had been working very hard to convert rest of chapters throughout December and I just posted Chapters 13 - 24 to Applications = Code + Markup (...

Drawing Maps with Visual Basic (Scott Wisniewski)

November 26, 2007 Nov 26, 2007 11/26/07
VBTeam
If you find yourself looking for something to do with your awesome new copy of Visual Studio 2008, you should check out the December 2007 edition of MSDN magazine. It features an article, written by me, that provides a walk through on how to visualize data on a map using VB 9, WPF and LINQ. To give you a sneak preview of what the app ...

Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion Update (Young Joo)

November 24, 2007 Nov 24, 2007 11/24/07
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Been a while since I posted Chapter 3 of Petzold's WPF book converted to VB.   In case you missed it, Patrick started working on this project which I took over early this month.  Anyway, I am very excited to tell you about progress we've been able to make so far.First, we now have a separate article page, Applications = ...

Petzold Chapter 3 (Young Joo)

November 5, 2007 Nov 5, 2007 11/5/07
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
I am Young Joo, PM @ VB team.  I will be helping out Patrick on converting samples in Charles Petzold's WPF book (Applications = Code + Markup) to Visual Basic.  This is an exciting project and I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.  Another exciting news is that we have an extra help for this project.  Evan Lim who ...