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Kathleen via
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6/28/2009 6:34:08 PM
Well, to me it is vastly disappointing. Back in January, I said that I thought Workflow 4.0 would be the most important feature of .NET 4.0. I was completely wrong. WF 4.0 will be a rather uneventful part of the .NET 4.0 release. My initial projection was partly because .NET 4.0 will (thankfully) be a rather quiet release at core with only limited new language features so the competition was never all that steep. But it was also because the WF in the CTP represented an important change to Wo ... [ read more ]
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Julie via
Julie Lerman
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6/27/2009 10:24:00 PM
From Danny Simmon's blog :
App week is a time we set aside at periodically to devote as much of our attention as possible to using the EF and related technologies to build applications so that we can experience some of the joys (and pain) of our valued customers.
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Beth Massi via
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6/27/2009 12:40:53 AM
At the MVP summit this year Kathleen and I asked MVPs using Visual Basic what kinds of applications they’re building, what other technologies they’re using, what their favorite features are, and more. Many thanks to all of you who humored me! The result? A great series of videos on Channel 9 . (I told you I’d get back at you Jim Duffy!) ;-) But Lisa decided to take this a step further to give more people, not just MVPs, a chance to tell their story. Check out www.imavb.net ( which ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
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6/26/2009 11:03:00 PM
Who’s the “typical VB.NET developer”? Is there one? There are millions of VB.NET developers in the world, and they each have their own unique story. We decided to talk to some of them to find out what kinds of applications they’re building, what technologies they’re using, and what their favorite features are. Watch the interviews and find out for yourself who today's VB.NET developers really are!
View the interviews
Are you a VB, too? Tell your story here or leave a comm ... [ read more ]
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Julie via
Julie Lerman
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6/26/2009 10:25:14 PM
Now that DataDirect’s Beta of their Oracle Provider with EF support is available, Jonathan Bruce (from DD) is starting to write technical posts about how to use it. Yesterday he posted Effective EF with Oracle And today: Effective EF with Oracle (Stored Procedures with REF CURSORs)... [For the complete article see the Orignal Post link below] ...
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Ged Mead via
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6/26/2009 12:00:00 AM
This article walks you through the steps involved in using The Visual State Manager in Silverlight 2.
Most articles seem to use the button as the demonstration element - probably because that makes things very easy. But as soon as you move away from the small core set of elements such as button that have States preset for you, you will find that you need a slightly different approach.
In this article, I will cover both situations.
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Beth Massi via
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6/25/2009 10:34:52 PM
If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (VSTO MVP) up on the Visual Basic and VSTO Dev Centers . In this article, learn how you can use Visual Basic to build application-level add-ins that automate common Microsoft Office tasks. It’s a good introduction to Office development with Visual Studio so check it out! Create an Application-Level Add-In to Automate Common Office Tasks Enjoy!
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VBTeam via
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6/25/2009 6:41:00 PM
By now, many of you will have downloaded the recent beta that we posted to the net, and (hopefully) are getting excited about the features that we’ve been developing. Recently, Beth Massi interviewed me about some of the work that I’ve been doing as a part of that effort. I always enjoy interviews, and Beth is great at pulling out some of the more interesting aspects of a person’s work, but I’m always somehow left with the feeling afterwards that there’s something more th ... [ read more ]
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jwooley via
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6/24/2009 3:39:00 PM
With SQL Server, you can use the For Xml clause (read more in BOL ). The quickest option is to add For XML Auto at the end of a SQL statement. You can do this with dynamic SQL or inside a stored proc. If you use a stored proc, the DBML tool doesn't recognize this as XML (and return it as an XElement as it does for XML Data type columns). Regardless of whether you are using stored procs or dynamic SQL, the server returns the result as an array of strings broken up into 4000 character chunks. ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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6/24/2009 3:00:11 PM
A few months ago, Tina started a great series on Channel9 that walks through the history of Microsoft, year by year: The History of Microsoft In the first episode, Bill Gates talks about what it was like to build Altair Basic. He actually shows the tape that represents the instructions for Basic! Lots of rare footage, and an entertaining show on how it all started. Episode #1: The History of Microsoft - 1975
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VBTeam via
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6/24/2009 7:02:00 AM
For those of you who prefer text over audio, here's a recent InfoQ article that was released based on the podcast I did with Joe Stagner :
InfoQ: Is There a Future for VB.NET?
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Julie via
Julie Lerman
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6/23/2009 6:38:00 PM
Most often when you want to interact with an object’s state, or change tracking information you cannot do that through the object itself. Instead you need to get at the ObjectStateEntry which the context created to manage the object. Inside the the ObjectStateEntry you have access to the current values, the original values, the EntityState (that property is exposed through EntityObject) and the ability to modify the state. In fact, in EF4, there's a new ObjectStateEntry method called Cha ... [ read more ]
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Julie via
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6/23/2009 12:50:52 AM
There were three big things that the EF team could not get into the VS2010 box on time – POCO T4 Templates, Code-Only features (POCO without a model) and Self-Tracking Entities. Even though VS2010 is only in Beta 1, the way the release cycles work, these three things won’t be part of the RTM. But they are nearly ready and will be released a little out of band along with VS2010. There is plenty of info on the features already on the ADO.NET Team blog. Here is the related blog posts from the ... [ read more ]
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Beth Massi via
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6/22/2009 11:51:30 PM
Joe Stagner’s second podcast is up and this time he’s interviewing the one and only Lisa Feigenbaum from the VB team . Joe pins her down on what the future of VB really is and discusses perceptions, parity and co-evolution. It’s a great interview so check it out: Misfit Geek Podcast - Episode #2 Does VB have a Future? I got a little nervous at about 31 minutes into it when Joe calls me the “Princess of Visual Basic” (better than an old queen I guess ;-)) and mentions that there ... [ read more ]
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6/22/2009 1:18:11 PM
As you may have heard Windows Workflow Foundation 4 is not an upgrade from Windows Workflow Foundation 3 (or 3.5). The version numbers might suggest that the previous version was quite mature but in fact it refers to the version of the .NET framework. In fact Windows Workflow Foundation 3 was the first version and 3.5 added only very few features and some bug fixes. And as WF 4 is a complete rewrite we should approach it as a new product and forget just about everything we already know about WF ... [ read more ]
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Julie via
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6/21/2009 8:58:00 PM
While I was away Microsoft finally announced that they were deprecating their support for System.Data.OracleClient . Remember that “deprecated” means 10 years before it’s totally gone. It *will* continue to be supported.
In fact here’s the official statement:
Microsoft will continue to provide hotfixes for critical issues in System.Data.OracleClient as per the standard support policy for .Net Framework 4.0. We will also continue to make critical bug fixes in ... [ read more ]
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Julie via
Julie Lerman
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6/21/2009 3:24:58 PM
Model Defined Functions are a great addition to EF4. It allows you to add functions directly into your model rather than having to place the additional logic into business classes. This not only allows the functions to be “just there”, but you can use them in queries, something that you cannot do with properties that are defined in the classes. Note that in the MSDN docs, these are called “Conceptual Model Functions” and also “User Defined Functions”. The basics for MDFs are simple enough ... [ read more ]
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CanOz via
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6/21/2009 9:32:00 AM
(*Note: If you have read this blog before you know that I can get rather long winded in my writing. If you want the short answer of what you need to do a simple deployment of a Silverlight application then scroll to the bottom of this post.)
Either I am missing something or the information is just not out there in an obvious place.
What I am talking about is deployment of Applications. Windows, WPF, ASP.NET or Silverlight it all seems to be the same. There i ... [ read more ]
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jwooley via
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6/20/2009 7:06:00 PM
As we already announced , the samples for chapters 1-8 of our LINQ in Action book are available through LINQPad . This includes the LINQ to Objects and LINQ to SQL. I've been working on the LINQ to XML chapters (9-11) and hope that we will add them to the download soon. In the process, I've needed to learn a bit about how LINQPad works under the covers in order to add specialized classes. By default, LINQPad offers three options: Expressions, Statements and Programs. With the Expressions, y ... [ read more ]
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Julie via
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6/20/2009 7:02:00 PM
I've been using the DB Publishing Wizard in VS2008 and VS2010 and learning about the huge improvements to Web Deployment in VS2010. You can read more about my discoveries here: Visual Studio's Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment
[A DevLife blog post]... [For the complete article see the Orignal Post link below] ...
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Julie via
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6/20/2009 6:59:00 PM
Alex James, a program manager on the EF team, has been posting a series of EF tips that just keeps getting better and better. Most of the tips revolve around using EF today with some nods to the upcoming EF4 in Visual Studio 2010.
Read more….
[A DevLife blog post]... [For the complete article see the Orignal Post link below] ...
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VBTeam via
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6/20/2009 3:35:00 PM
As part of the new VB/C# co-evolution strategy , Visual Studio Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg has broadened his role. In addition to being Chief Architect for C#, he now sets the direction for both the VB.NET and C# languages.
At TechEd, Anders participated in both the VB.NET and C# language presentations. In watching these sessions, you can see that the future trends and directions for the VB.NET and C# languages are now the same.
TechEd NA 2009 Session Video: "Future Directions for ... [ read more ]
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6/20/2009 12:24:41 AM
Last week I spoke at DevTeach in Vancouver which was held at the beautiful Four Seasons in downtown. I love this Canadian conference because the attendees are great – super friendly and social, and ask a lot of great questions. I mostly interacted with folks building applications for the government or working as consultants and wanting to freshen up their .NET skills. It was also nice to see a good number of VB developers here. I gave three talks and ended up in the top 3 speakers overall whi ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
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6/19/2009 8:32:53 PM
In the second part of my interview with Doug Rothaus, he describes the new implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010. Learn about the most common scenarios that no longer require the underscore character (_) in the topic, Statements in Visual Basic . See the Video: implicit Line Continuation --Kathleen McGrath http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen
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6/19/2009 7:03:36 PM
Entity Framework samples have not been released in VB.NET! Check out the blog link below.
Full Blog Entry: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2009/06/18/vb-entity-framework-samples-now-available-lisa-feigenbaum.aspx
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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6/19/2009 5:57:32 PM
The Misfit Geek, Joe Stagner , asked me this provocative question in a recent episode on his new podcast series : "Does VB have a Future?". Tune in to hear more details on my answer, which of course is YES! :) We talk about plans for increasing the VB.NET content across Microsoft, the great innovations that are happening in VB.NET, idea sharing that's been happening between VB.NET and C#, the similarities and differences between VB.NET and C# developers, and more! Ep ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
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6/19/2009 5:45:00 AM
There are a lot of great Entity Framework samples on Code Gallery that you can now find available in Visual Basic .NET. This was recently announced on the ADO.NET team blog . Browse through the list below and start downloading!
ADO.NET Entity Framework Query Samples (Download)
ADO.NET Entity Framework Query Samples is a small Windows Forms program which contains several basic Entity SQL and LINQ to Entities queries against that NorthwindEF Entity Data Model (a modified versio ... [ read more ]
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