{"id":5203,"date":"2007-11-13T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2007\/11\/13\/don-box-on-visual-basic-9-beth-massi\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:38:50","slug":"don-box-on-visual-basic-9-beth-massi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/don-box-on-visual-basic-9-beth-massi\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Box on Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/blogs\/dbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Box<\/a> is really liking Visual Basic 9 and it&#8217;s unique XML support, <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/blogs\/dbox\/archive\/2007\/11\/11\/49019.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINQ query syntax<\/a>, and <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/blogs\/dbox\/archive\/2007\/11\/11\/49018.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lambdas<\/a>. He even mentions <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/blogs\/dbox\/archive\/2007\/11\/11\/49017.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a post about authentication with REST<\/a> that his dream stack would be doing direct XML payload programming with Visual Basic 9. There&#8217;s so many interesting things you can do with VB9 and XML. If you want to get started learning this great new feature check out the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vbasic\/bb466226.aspx#linq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINQ to XML How Do I videos<\/a> on the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.com\/vbasic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visual Basic Developer Center<\/a>. You can also <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bethmassi\/archive\/tags\/LINQ\/XML\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read some more&nbsp;articles<\/a> I have on the subject on <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bethmassi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy,<br \/>&#8211;<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bethmassi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beth Massi<\/a>, VS Community<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Don Box is really liking Visual Basic 9 and it&#8217;s unique XML support, LINQ query syntax, and lambdas. He even mentions in a post about authentication with REST that his dream stack would be doing direct XML payload programming with Visual Basic 9. There&#8217;s so many interesting things you can do with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,195],"tags":[40,94],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-member-interviews","category-visual-basic","tag-beth-massi","tag-linqvb9"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It looks like Don Box is really liking Visual Basic 9 and it&#8217;s unique XML support, LINQ query syntax, and lambdas. He even mentions in a post about authentication with REST that his dream stack would be doing direct XML payload programming with Visual Basic 9. There&#8217;s so many interesting things you can do with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}