Visual Basic Globalized Headline Feed http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/cc442493.aspx en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:49:50 -0700 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:48:18 -0700 1440 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Learn how to use Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), XAML, and the deep XML support in Visual Basic to generate user interfaces dynamically. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc947916.aspx Wed, 1 Oct 2008, 03:28:00 -0700 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc507085.data_30(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg .NET Framework 3.5 bridges the gap between Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). In this second of two articles, Maurice de Beijer shows you how to use ReceiveActivity, which enables a developer to publish a workflow as a WCF service. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc904193.aspx Wed, 10 Sep 2008, 07:28:00 -0700 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc507085.windows_30(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg Join Ken Getz as he completes the tour of the methods of the System.Linq.Enumerable class, looking at methods that handle converting, positioning, calculating, and performing set operations on sequences of objects. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc793963.aspx Tue, 02 Sep 2008, 07:28:00 -0700 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc507085.visual_studio_30(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 significantly improve the developer experience during the development process, and at runtime. These improvements address top issues reported by customers. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc533448.aspx Mon, 11 Aug 2008, 11:25:00 -0700 http://msdn.microsoft.com/cc507085.download_30(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg In this article Jared Parsons shows a technique to achieve maximum performance from LINQ queries on large sets of data in order to create a responsive UI. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc721610.aspx Mon, 04 Aug 2008, 5:30:04 -0700 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc507085.visual_studio_30(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg This how-to video series is focused on data-based application development in Windows Presentation Foundation using Visual Studio 2008. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb466226.aspx#wpfdata 55984316-B8DE-4148-8BC7-DE3AC453AEA7 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:48:18 -0700 http://msdn.microsoft.com/cc507085.video_30(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg .NET Framework 3.5 bridges the gap between Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). In this first of two articles, Maurice de Beijer shows you how to use SendActivity, which enables you to call WCF as well as standard web services, in your workflows. The next article will show you how to use ReceiveActivity, which enables a developer to publish a workflow as a WCF service. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/cc721596.aspx BB5CF21F-53B2-451E-8BA3-949507A033DE Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:14:44 -0700 http://msdn.microsoft.com/cc507085.windows_30(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg Visual Basic 9 in Visual Studio 2008 has a set of language features that allows developers to work with XML in a much more productive way using a new API called LINQ to XML. This article will help you master these new features for working with XML in Visual Basic. http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0807061 117045FF-AA6F-4854-AD27-A9B19A0C0ED5 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:06:58 -0700 Visual Studio 2008 includes tools for Office that allow developers to build custom components, such as add-ins, for Microsoft Office System applications writing managed code. See how you can create a custom task pane for Microsoft Word 2007 and how to integrate Text-to-Speech capabilities provided by .NET Framework. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627340.aspx 87167538-B3D6-4669-9185-4F348D615CF0 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:37:07 -0700 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta introduces full support for SQL Server 2008, improved performance in the IDE and WPF designers, improved Web development and site deployment, as well as many Team Foundation Server enhancements. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117351 73275538-B3D6-4669-9185-4F348D615CF0 Tue, 13 May 2008 12:35:13 -0700 Microsoft Download the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta for improved features for both client and Web development. Additionally, SP1 for the .NET Framework introduces the ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115068 FD6070C7-5794-491F-B148-E71EE99DB713 Tue, 13 May 2008 12:35:12 -0700 Microsoft In this second article about developing custom Workflow Activities, Maurice de Beijer takes a look at some of the more advanced aspects of Workflow Activity development. The most important of these could well be how to create event-driven activities. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/cc442493.aspx 41354B6F-2E04-464C-BCEB-EAA423F5C1C7 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:56:14 -0700 Matthew DeVore shows you how to to integrate your own My Namespace extension into the Visual Basic development environment using the My Extensibility feature available in Visual Basic 2008. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc424900.aspx 230DAB84-BEE3-4A13-8F6F-3DFB63EEC2FD Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:07:45 -0700 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. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337894.aspx 17B5F7C7-CB57-4417-B88B-6850BC5D6910 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:03:48 -0700 We added 48 How Do I videos (Forms over data, Windows development, Office development and Security) to the Visual Basic developer Center in addition to adding new download formats for 12 others. This includes audio files, and additional videos files to make these videos as accessible as possible. You can go directly to the How Do I video series main page to see the complete list. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb466226.aspx 90CEDAC0-E4A3-4155-A114-E244CC2A9B21 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:26:53 -0700 Beth Massi Welcome to the launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Together these three products provide a secure and trusted platform for building your most mission-critical applications. Learn more about these products and launch events in your area at HeroesHappenHere.com. http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/default.mspx B0E8657F-E61D-48AC-8652-BC8DF6E747ED Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:06:07 -0800 Microsoft Workflow Foundation (WF) is part of the .NET 3.0 Framework alongside Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Where WCF and WPF enable new and improved ways of doing things we have been doing for a long time, the same can’t be said for Workflow Foundation. Using Workflow Foundation enables a developer to create a whole new style of application, the long running and event driven application. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/cc351048.aspx 3A3A132F-4DD6-4A76-BA57-F3ED34877E90 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:11:45 -0700 Maurice de Beijer LINQ-enabled languages like Visual Basic give you a rich set of query operators that can be applied to various data sources, such as in-memory collections, databases, datasets, and XML. Visual Basic 9.0 actually goes beyond that and makes XML a first-class data type directly in the language. In this article Jonathan Aneja shows you how you can become much more productive using XML in Visual Basic 9.0. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/02/BasicInstincts/default.aspx 6C6344FB-75DE-4163-8F46-18358898829B Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:44:17 -0800 Jonathan Aneja Last year Microsoft released the .NET Framework 3.0. Unlike previous releases of the framework this version was not an upgrade or change to existing functionality but it was shipped as a number of additions to the existing .NET Framework 2.0. One of these additions was Workflow Foundation (WF), the others being Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows CardSpace. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of what Workflow Foundation is about and when or where its use would be advantageous. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/cc197158.aspx E5C63951-8A13-4A2B-B1AC-8F096112FACA Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:59:19 -0700 Maurice de Beijer Many distributed architectures use DataSets on the client and the server when both are written with .NET. In this video, Visual Basic developers will learn how to use the new N-Tier DataSets in Visual Studio 2008 that makes this architectural scenario easy to accomplish. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/cc138242.aspx A9870A45-7EFC-4068-BF28-FC8637A8E3F5 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:59:17 -0700 Beth Massi Visual Basic programmers will learn how to properly control updates, inserts and deletes in multi-user applications on forms that edit master-detail related data using the TableAdapterManager in Visual Studio 2008. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/cc138241.aspx 6851CC45-37B6-4169-BDA9-8A367DFF5302 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:59:07 -0700 Beth Massi The Microsoft .NET Framework exposes information about generic types and methods differently than it does for those that are non-generic. Join Ken Getz as he investigates reflection features as they relate to generics. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/01/AdvancedBasics/ C0055BCE-E2F4-442F-A486-73D2A4F34309 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:57:21 -0800 Ken Getz Learn how to use LINQ and the new XML features in Visual Basic to easily visualize map data and dynamically draw them with Windows Presentation Foundation. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/12/Maps/default.aspx A887F81B-9C23-4426-9835-067E6AF333B2 Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:50:06 -0800 Microsoft The newly launched Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services enables software publishers to more effectively protect their code from reverse engineering, as well as package, license, and include activation for their applications. SLP Services offers a developer toolkit that enables protection of .NET code to help prevent piracy and intellectual property theft. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8068206 4719BFD6-E8D7-4917-B66A-E5301EABB267 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:55:26 -0800 Microsoft The Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition is the ideal deal tool for productively building object-oriented applications for Windows on the .NET Framework. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7653517 7ac8854c-8551-459d-a56e-c432c927d481 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:52:32 +0000 Microsoft Get it here first! With Visual Studio 2008, you can develop connected, compelling applications for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, mobile devices, and the Web. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/subscriptions/bb608344.aspx 38f2ac67-7897-48d9-bed2-35a8067175dc Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:52:28 +0000 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 builds incrementally on the new features added in .NET Framework 3.0 and is now available as a separate download. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7755937 b2b3b822-daaf-4407-85ab-734547c33f9a Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:23:38 +0000 Microsoft Learn how extension methods let you extend any existing type's functionality, even when a type is not inheritable. Extension methods play a crucial role in the implementation of LINQ in Visual Basic. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/11/BasicInstincts/default.aspx 2dad0843-3989-475b-8c17-558e8e85a5fe Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:48:54 +0000 Adrian Bowles Visual Basic developers will learn about all the new XML features included in the next version of Visual Basic which makes creating, querying and transforming XML easier than ever before. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb466226.aspx#LINQ 7a896ad5-eeca-4ef4-8ffa-f874e3fae564 Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:40:20 +0000 Beth Massi Visual Basic 9 in Visual Studio 2008 offers a new approach to programming with XML. Find out how to get started using XML in your Visual Basic applications. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687701.aspx 085c7594-b55e-4404-a698-d03423f0b425 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:27:46 +0000 Microsoft Help us help you by taking 10 minutes to fill out our Visual Studio Content Survey on how to improve the Visual Studio documentation. We appreciate it! http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102169 dbfadfb7-291e-4517-8f81-dac7190ee445 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:25:54 +0000 Microsoft Tim Ng from the Visual Basic Team explains lambda expressions, a new feature added to Visual Basic 9 to support Language Integrated Queries (LINQ), which adds data programmability to Visual Basic. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/09/BasicInstincts/ 5b1bf00f-4e33-4d72-a014-9a28428802d8 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:54:55 +0000 Microsoft The Visual Basic Pack for the Visual Studio 2005 SDK includes SDK samples converted into the Visual Basic language and a new wizard for generating Visual Basic-based integration packages for Visual Studio. http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2007/09/15/Visual-Basic-Pack-for-Visual-Studio-2005-SDK.aspx f0dd1f26-0563-419b-aa44-98b500bc5770 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:58:49 +0000 Microsoft The XML to Schema tool is a free project item template to automate creation of XML schema sets from any number of XML documents. If you are working with Language Integrated Queries (LINQ) to XML in Visual Basic 9, this utility can significantly improve your editing experience by adding XML schemas (.xsd files) to your project that add IntelliSense for XML properties. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb840042.aspx f5a9e522-2ffa-4443-bb1e-51e5262f2ecc Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:59:43 +0000 Microsoft Refactor! for Visual Basic 2008 by Developer Express Inc. enables Visual Basic developers to simplify and re-structure source code inside of Visual Studio 2008, making it easier to read and less costly to maintain. Download this version which works with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and contains many new refactoring operations to support the new language features in Visual Basic 9. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb693327.aspx c9f60194-c007-4bde-bf04-c4521f521d26 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:31:28 +0000 Microsoft See all of the improvements that are coming in Visual Studio 2008 with next-generation Web development, integrated development for the Microsoft Office system, and industry-leading designers for Windows Vista. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx 68772529-606a-46af-8702-a580e8833d36 Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:22:16 +0000 Microsoft Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 now includes a new DataRepeater control. The DataRepeater control enables you to use standard Windows Forms controls to display rows of your data in a scrollable container, giving you more flexibility and customization than standard grid controls. This version of the Visual Basic Power Packs also includes updated versions of the previously released Visual Basic Power Packs, Line and Shape controls, the PrintForm Component and the Printer Compatibility Library. All are included in a single assembly, making them even easier to use and redistribute with your application. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb735936.aspx b2d06290-c8b7-4509-a512-f911ffd36864 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:15:56 -0700 Microsoft These Visual Basic LINQ Hands-on Labs provide an introduction to the LINQ Project. Learn basic LINQ features, including the Standard Query Operators, and see how these features can be used against in-memory collections, connected databases, and XML documents. The labs also provide a clear picture of the relational data access support provided by the LINQ Project, referred to as LINQ to SQL. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6924842 eaf166ba-b4db-46e7-a865-f75c56ef27dc Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:09:47 +0000 Microsoft The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 is the latest preview release of the .NET Framework. In support of existing users, the .NET Framework 3.5 has a minimal number of breaking changes. Download it today. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D2F74873-C796-4E60-91C8-F0EF809B09EE e73e33eb-c2f0-4a53-8e08-65cc569a9cbc Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:22:38 +0000 Microsoft Understand the key concepts that drove the design of LINQ, and get a custom query provider that shows how this information can be used in real-world applications. You can download it from the MSDN Magazine Web site. This article assumes a working knowledge of database programming and a passing familiarity with LINQ. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/08/BasicInstincts/ 71d2e51b-6d64-48ef-a121-a53f0a2770c5 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:53:20 +0000 Microsoft Have you ever wanted to use data querying techniques in your code? Now you can. The next version of Visual Studio includes a new set of language features known collectively as Language Integrated Query (LINQ), which adds data querying capabilities directly to Visual Basic. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7084840 63dc0057-67a6-4597-b18f-c69149d2d5c3 Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:05:43 +0000 Microsoft This how-to video series is dedicated to getting Visual Basic developers productive on areas of data-based Windows Application development. The series starts with the basics of database development with SQL-Server 2005 Express then walks through the details of connecting to and querying databases, Windows Forms development basics, Reporting, and Deployment using Visual Basic 2005. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb466226.aspx#formsoverdata fb08dd30-54f9-4f4f-be57-8846334ce700 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:31:53 +0000 Beth Massi See what it takes to develop Visual Basic applications that run cross-browser and cross-platform! Silverlight 1.1 is here and it will allow Visual Basic developers to create rich applications that will literally run everywhere. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6721414 9d951b9d-cfbf-4f08-878b-bc840a377e4d Thu, 24 May 2007 19:23:52 +0000 Microsoft This how-to video series is focused on more advanced data binding techniques using object binding in Visual Basic 2005. The series walks through creating business objects and how to associate them in one-to-many relationships, how to provide searching capabilities and how to enable sorting. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb466226.aspx#objectbinding 9dd5683e-c01d-4912-a219-72e5ea177b2c Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:26:14 +0000 Beth Massi