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You will love this drop of WinFX… it has the Windows Workflow Services stuff in there as well as Windows Presentation Foundation (“Avalon”) and Windows Communication Foundation (“Indigo”)…   Just a note – it does work only with the BETA2 build of .NET Framework 2.0 and VS 2005… So don’t try to make this work on top of anything more recent.   http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/getthebeta/default.aspx   Have Fun!
In response to a not-that-uncommon usergroup question:   Ah, I'm not a fan of putting BLOBs in the database--despite that it works better now-a-days. Adding BLOBs can easily fill up one of the smaller footprint DBMS systems like MSDE (2gb) and SQL Express (which can hold 4gb). There are a litany of other issues as well: Performance. While fetch and retrieval performance has improved, it still takes longer to fetch a BLOB from the database and save it back  ... [ read more ]
Normally I don't like to make entries that are just a collection of links, but this time I will make an exception.  Here are some other blogs and posts about the future of Visual Basic and Project LINQ: http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/09/13/10501.aspx   - Paul Vick http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2005/09/12/Announcing_Linq.aspx  - Alan Griver http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2005/09/13/464893.aspx  - Amanada Silver http://lambda-the-ultimat ... [ read more ]
Today we just posted the My.Blogs sample .  This is a great demonstrations by Chris Mayo and others on the Visual Basic team that shows you how to extend the My object in Visual Basic 2005.  Besides being a great My extension sample it, since it is built to read and write blogs.  It gives people easy access to this technology from within their applications.  The download includes code samples for desktop applications, web applications, and it even has a VSTO (Visual Studio ... [ read more ]
A great post by Erik on LINQ and the language of choice  :D  
Stop everything and check out the VB9 language futures at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/ there's even an example compiler you can run with the Beta of VS.NET 2005 !! So make sure you check out the LINQ docuement then the DLINQ and XLINQ ones as well.. oh and of course the VB 9.0 one too My favourite has got to be the tight integration of XML with VB.  (note C# does NOT have this) Here's an example from the LINQ document : Dim x = <People>   &nbs ... [ read more ]


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