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VBTeam via
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8/23/2008 12:00:02 AM
Today I posted another Channel 9 interview on SP1. This time, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team is back demonstrating new improvements to the "Go To Definition", "Find All References" and Rename capabilities in the editor when flipping between code and XAML in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Enjoy, - Beth Massi , Visual Studio Community
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bill via
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8/21/2008 11:42:57 AM
I’ve been waiting for this update for VS 2008 SDK for VS 2008 SP1. The link I got fro ma msdn blog post was wrong, so here’s the link to the download page. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=59ec6ec3-4273-48a3-ba25-dc925a45584d&DisplayLang=en Enjoy.
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bill via
@ Head - Bill McCarthy - VB
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8/21/2008 11:40:39 AM
Davy Brion posted about how events can keep object references alive. In C# to rid yourself of this issue you have to manually unwire any event handler you wired. In VB, it is a lot easier, all you have to do is use WithEvents and set the variable to nothing. This code is the VB version of Davy’s sample: Public Class Publisher Public Event MyEvent As EventHandler Public Sub FireEvent() ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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8/21/2008 4:55:00 AM
Last week I got the chance to visit the Toronto .NET User Group and give a talk on all the great new language features in VB2008. It was great to see so much excitement a round LINQ and especially XML Literals !
The slides and demo code are posted at the link below; here’s the session abstract (with links inserted so you can find more info on each topic):
Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a new platform feature in Vis ... [ read more ]
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William (Bill) Vaughn
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8/20/2008 10:56:56 PM
The title says it all. Just experimented with this and it seems the Visual Studio (Server Explorer) Team has relented to let the SQL Server 2K8 SSMS team use this (IMHO) very useful tool. ;) I also like the way that when you request to execute a SP, SSMS scripts a routine to call it. Nice touch.
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Maurice via
Maurice de Beijer
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8/20/2008 7:04:54 AM
.NET Reflector, by Lutz Roeder, must be one of the most useful tools I have when developing .NET code. Usually it is the first thing I install right after Visual Studio not even waiting until I need it because I know I will. So the big news is that Red Gate, makers of the Ants profiler and lots of other tools, are taking over from Lutz Roeder and will continue developing .NET Reflector. Interesting move and I hope this means a bright future for the .NET Reflector. Read more about this here ... [ read more ]
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Beth Massi via
Beth Massi
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8/20/2008 3:09:00 AM
One of the things I was really missing from WPF when I started to dig into data binding was feature consistency between the BindingListCollectionView and the Winforms BindingSource I had grown to love. The BindingListCollectionView provides the navigation, currency, filtering and sorting on the bound collection of data (or DataTable) just like the BindingSource in Winforms.
However transacted adding and removing of items to the collections was not supported. You'll notice in my WPF Fo ... [ read more ]
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William (Bill) Vaughn
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8/20/2008 12:27:31 AM
Having been part of a marketing organization within Microsoft and other companies, I can understand why some folks feel it's important to show the Rolls Royce product in its best light. However, when I see how SQL Server Enterprise is being marketed , I'm dismayed. Consider that while Microsoft makes a bundle on SQL Server Enterprise Gold Trim Edition (a much as $25,000), they make quite a bit (if not more) on Workgroup and Standard (about $4000-$5000). And yes, even the free editions (Express ... [ read more ]
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William (Bill) Vaughn
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8/19/2008 10:30:12 PM
Paul Randall and Kimberly Tripp came to the Redmond .NET User Group last night and gave an animated talk on indexing--a subject that both of them know cold. I thought I would share a few tidbits that struck me as important. Consider that Kimberly and Paul are SQL Server experts and don't always worry about "developer" issues. When asked what they thought of the Entity Framework their reaction was... less than enthusiastic. If you ever get a chance to listen to this married couple spea ... [ read more ]
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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8/19/2008 3:22:52 PM
The Northwind database has 27 tables and views. AdventureWorksLT has 17. Sound like
your database? Probably not.
What have people who have been pushing the designer with databases with hundreds or
even thousands of tables & views been experiencing?
According to Noam Ben-Ami who is on the team that works on the designer, the performance
for the designer itself should have " typically
reasonable " performance for up to "about 120 tables, after which things
begin slowi ... [ read more ]
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Maurice via
Maurice de Beijer
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8/19/2008 10:32:52 AM
Want to know what is new in the .NET 3.5 SP1 framework or Visual Studio 2008 SP1? Then check out the presentations and labs here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=355C80E9-FDE0-4812-98B5-8A03F5874E96&displaylang=en Overview The .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, demos, and event materials. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the .NET 3.5 Enhancement features including: ASP.NET MVC, ... [ read more ]
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bill via
@ Head - Bill McCarthy - VB
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8/18/2008 3:44:15 PM
In case you haven’t seen it, Microsoft is releasing tools for WPF out of cycle as part of the WPF toolkit . Current release includes a CTP of a Data Grid, and a Date Picker and Calendar is planned.
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Jared Parsons via
Jared Parsons
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8/18/2008 12:00:10 PM
The August issue of MSDN magazine will be carrying an article I wrote this spring. In it I toy around with using the deferred execution and lazy evaluation properties of LINQ to create more responsive UI code. You can view the article here . As usual I appreciate any feedback you have.
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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8/17/2008 3:03:06 PM
From Microsoft
Entity
Framework Supported Mapping Scenarios
Writer: Asad Khan
Published: July 2008
Applies To: Entity Framework
Summary: This white paper enumerates the supported mapping scenarios in Entity
Framework. It also mentions important design considerations for store schema in
order to deal with advanced mapping scenarios.
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V. Neil Knobbe via
VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
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8/17/2008 8:17:00 AM
Once again it seems that a post from vbCity is to be fodder for a post here.
Although not part of the original query by vbcity member quicksun, the question of getting a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Form to be resized as the expander control was either expanded or collapsed came up.
I went with what I thought was the quickest way about resizing the Form and that was to use the Collapse and Expand events of the expander control to reset the height of the WPF Form to its desired si ... [ read more ]
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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8/15/2008 10:25:31 PM
Naturally, these are on my mind because my hand still stings from getting slapped
by the runtime when I tried to do this.
LINQ to Entities does not support projecting into known types.
If you have a type or struct defined such as:
Public Structure KeyListItem Public ID As Integer Public Name As String End Structure
and are doing a query that will project out an ID and a Name, this is the natural
way to write the query, given some experience with LINQ to [anyth ... [ read more ]
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VBTeam via
The Visual Basic Team
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8/15/2008 9:23:06 PM
Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao , a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element or namespace and select "Show in XML Schema Explorer" in Visual Basic programs. It's a nice way to visually display the structure of your schema sets which makes you even more productive when working with XML in Visual Basic. ... [ read more ]
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William (Bill) Vaughn
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8/15/2008 7:38:21 PM
I've just discovered the Rosetta Stone for the AdventureWorks sample databases that you can install to demo or test SQL Server. It was created by Pikauba Software Solutions for SQL Server 2005, but I expect that many of the details are going to be similar for 2008. See this .
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William (Bill) Vaughn
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8/15/2008 3:10:26 AM
I was wrong. Actually, I was mislead and believed what I was told about Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) RTM. Apparently, the Katmai report processor was not incorporated into the ReportViewer (or as they now call it the "MicrosoftReportViewer") control during SP1. While it might look like Microsoft had upgraded the ReportViewer (it has the new "Tablix" control and other Reporting Services 2008 features), the RDL generated by the newly released Katmai RDL ... [ read more ]
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XmlTeam via
XML Team
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8/14/2008 11:05:00 PM
The XmlPreloadedResolver is a new type that we’ve been working on in SilverLight that provides the ability to load a DTD without a call to the network. The new type can act as a manually maintainable cache of DTD’s and XML Streams.
Let’s look at two examples of how the XmlPreloadedResolver can be used.
Example 1:
The XmlPreloadedResolver can be used to pre-load an external DTD. In the following example, a user-defined DTD is pre-loaded into the resolver. The resolver is th ... [ read more ]
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XmlTeam via
XML Team
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8/14/2008 5:50:51 PM
A few months ago we added the XML Schema Explorer to the SP1 Beta release and are happy to announce that this week we've shipped with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM release. As previously stated, the XML Schema Explorer illustrates our initial thinking about the future of XSD tools from Microsoft. Over the next few months we'll be communicating our additional tools plans for XSD, including when you'll be able to get your hands on upcoming bits. Please send us ... [ read more ]
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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8/14/2008 4:26:57 PM
Not everyone is having the easiest time installing this service pack.
Here
is a list of hints, links and things you should be prepared for before applying the
service pack.
[A New DevLife Post]
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William (Bill) Vaughn
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8/14/2008 12:02:17 AM
Be sure to start SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Configuration Manager and check out the new default virtual directory name. Notice that the team has finally changed the name to be IIS standard notation. No longer will you see MyServer$MyInstance as the VD name. Now it's MyServer_MyInstance. More tips to follow... When you open an existing RDL report, you'll find that Visual Studio's BI tools convert it automatically to the new "Tablix" control. Unfortunately, each c ... [ read more ]
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William (Bill) Vaughn
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8/13/2008 10:54:23 PM
I needed to install the latest AdventureWorks database(s) on my systems here and I found the instructions less than helpful. I finally got them installed and wrote a white paper on how to do it--screen shots, figures, tables and all. See it posted on Developer.Com Technorati Tags: AdventureWorks , SQL Server 2008 .
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William (Bill) Vaughn
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8/13/2008 9:05:23 PM
Technorati Tags: CLR , Visual Studio SP1 , SQL Server 2008 After having installed Visual Studio SP1 and SQL Server 2008, I wanted to make sure my existing CLR demos worked. I have a number of unique examples (that are included in my latest book) that illustrate basic to complex functions, stored procedures, aggregates and user-defined types--all implemented in CLR (Visual Basic.NET) languages. So, I attached my existing Biblio example database to the new SQL Server 2008 instance and ... [ read more ]
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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8/13/2008 12:39:22 PM
The Sept/October 2008 issue of CoDe
Magazine contains an article that I wrote highlighting some of the major differences
between DataSets, LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework. As long as the article is, and
it is the longest I have ever written for CoDe at 14 pages, of course it was impossible
to cover everything. But I used as my basis my own experience, plus the many questions
I have been asked directly or seen on forums and in blogs over the last few years
as a basis for what I thought was i ... [ read more ]
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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8/12/2008 7:04:15 PM
I've created a site that will eventually be used for my book, Programming Entity Framework.
Before I had a book title I had started out using LearnEntityFramework.com then
pointed ProgrammingEntityFramework.com to
the same spot. In the long run the urls just point the thedatafarm.com/learnentityframework.
It's all good.
The site uses the free "express" version of Graffiti from Telligent (Community
Server's younger sibling) which is easy to use and very customizable. ... [ read more ]
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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8/12/2008 2:39:50 PM
The starting point for EF in the online documentation is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399572.aspx
This will help! You'll need to dump your Internet Explorer Temp files if you are
not getting SP1 documentation.
Otherwise you'll see Beta 3 and it will be obvious. Here is a screenshot of the
new docs.
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Julie Lerman via
Julie Lerman
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8/12/2008 11:01:19 AM
On the ADO.NET Team blog:
Third
Party Provider Support for the Entity Framework RTM
I found this video a few weeks ago from Sybase on YouTube of all places where they
talk about SQL Anywhere 11's support for EF when someone had emailed me asking about
SQL Anywhere support.
SQL
Anywhere 11 supports the Entity Framework
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