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All - I'm about to go on for my LINQ Deep Dive and Tips &Tricks session at VSLive in San Francisco. I posted all demos & slides here: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=LaunchVB&ReleaseId=805
Join Ken Getz as he walks us through LINQ to XML and the Community Technology Preview (CTP) edition of the Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats. These two technologies can change the way in which you access the parts of the 2007 Office system Open XML documents (created by Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) when retrieving or modifying data.
One API that seems to be missing from List(Of T) is a BinaryInsert method.  Especially since there is already a BinarySearch method. Binary insert is a method for inserting a value into an already sorted list.  Since the list is already sorted we can do a binary search to find the appropriate place to insert.  The insert keeps the list sorted so the cost of a binary insert is just the cost of the search which is O(Log(N)).  An alternative method for keeping a sor ... [ read more ]
In my previous post, I was sort of happy to see an update for WebProfile for use in VS08.  The thing is, I really dislike the error you get in the build with this approach, I just can't use that in a production environment.  So... I did some more digging and came across this solution by Jon Galloway .  You should read his article for a full explanation of what is going on. His samples are in C# which is great, but there are some caveats to doing it in VB. Here is the same co ... [ read more ]


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