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Map LINQ: Create Dynamic Maps with Visual Basic 9.0 and WPF

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....

Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition Now Available

The Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition is the ideal deal tool for productively building object-oriented applications for Windows on the .NET Framework....

Basic Instincts: Extension Methods in Visual Basic 2008

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 2...

Give Us Your Feedback on Visual Studio Documentation

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!...

Improve Your Productivity: Program with XML in Visual Basic 9

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....

XML to Schema Tool

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 Vi...

Visual Basic Pack for Visual Studio 2005 SDK

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 St...

Basic Instincts: Lambda Expressions

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....

Refactor! for Visual Basic 2008 Beta 2

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 costl...

Download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

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 Windo...

New Version of Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005

Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 by Developer Express Inc., in partnership with Microsoft, enables Visual Basic developers to simplify and re-structure source code inside of Visual Studio 2005, making ...

MSDN Magazine: Basic Instincts: Query Comprehensions

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 Mag...

MSDN Magazine: Unleash the power of query in Visual Studio 2008

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 Quer...

Download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1

Visual Studio 2008 is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and the Web. Download and try this early release of the next version of Visual Studio....

Download the Visual Basic LINQ Hands-on Labs for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1

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-...

Join thousands of developers at TechEd 2007

Did you know that a lot of the content at TechEd 2007 is developer-focused? If you are looking to develop and deploy mission-critical Web applications with the latest generation of Web technologies, a...

The Visual Basic language on Silverlight

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 wil...

Create data-rich business documents with Word 2007 and Visual Basic 2005 automatically

In Microsoft Office Word 2007, automation is a great mechanism for populating business documents with data from backend systems. Learn techniques for using Visual Basic 2005 and automation to remote c...

The Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 is now live!

Bring the Power of .NET to Visual Basic 6 with the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0. This free add-in simplifies the process of displaying .NET forms and controls in a Visual Basic 6 application....

Experience the Power of Visual Basic 2005

Leverage your existing development skills to become more versatile and productive by attending our new Visual Basic 2005 Labcast Series. Select from six informative labcasts and find out how you will ...

Visual Basic LINQ Samples for Visual Studio Code Named Orcas

Orcas is the code name for next iteration of Visual Studio. These samples are pre-release versions that are expected to change and evolve over time....

Check Out IIS.net for Everything You Need To Know About IIS

Get the latest information on using and developing for Internet Information Services including articles, videos, blogs, and the latest information on IIS 7.0....

3-tier Architecture with ASP.NET 2.0: Tutorial 7: Master/Detail Filtering With a DropDownList (Visual Basic)

Examines how to build a simple master/detail report showing a selected category's products. This is accomplished by using a DropDownList for the list of categories and a GridView for the products belo...

3-tier Architecture with ASP.NET 2.0: Tutorial 10: Master/Detail Using a Selectable Master GridView with a Details DetailView

The final tutorial on master/detail reports. We'll look at how to display a list of products in a GridView where each row has a Select button. Clicking the Select button will display that product's de...

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Customize your MSDN Flash newsletter today and youll be automatically entered to win a chance for cool home music gear like a new Microsoft Zune or a wireless home digital music system from Sonos!...

ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters 1.0 Released!

Have you ever wanted to emit standards compliant and CSS based markup rather than the default table based markup provided in ASP.NET 2.0? Adaptive control behavior in ASP.NET 2.0 gives you the abilit...

Advanced Basics: TableLayoutPanels

This month Ken Getz explains the TableLayoutPanel in Windows Forms and shows how it can be used to create a demo system....

3-tier Architecture with ASP.NET 2.0: Tutorial 3: Master Pages and Site Navigation (Visual Basic)

With the site map defined and the master page complete, we now have a consistent page layout and navigation scheme for our data-related tutorials. Now updating the site-wide page layout or site naviga...

Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs

Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs are Add-Ins, Controls, Components, Tools, or Samples for you to use with Visual Basic 2005 to make developing great applications even easier. The first two Power Packs ar...

3-tier Architecture with ASP.NET 2.0: Tutorial 5: Declarative Parameters (Visual Basic)

In order to use methods with input parameters, we need to specify the values for the parameters in the ObjectDataSource's SelectParameters collection. Different types of parameters allow for the param...

3-tier Architecture with ASP.NET 2.0: Tutorial 6: Programmatically Setting the ObjectDataSource's Parameter Values (Visual Basic)

While the ObjectDataSource's parameters' values can typically be set declaratively, without requiring a line of code, it's easy to set the parameter values programmatically. This tutorial concludes th...

Simplify Task Progress with ASP.NET "Atlas"

Dino Esposito rewrites his task progress bar with the help of ASP.NET Atlas....

A Visual Basic Developer's Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0

Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 6.0 developers get an introduction to building Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0, as well as the major differences between developing desktop and Web applications....

3-tier Architecture with ASP.NET 2.0: Tutorial 4: Displaying Data With the ObjectDataSource (Visual Basic)

Accessing and displaying data from a Business Logic Layer can be accomplished without writing a line of code thanks to ASP.NET 2.0's ObjectDataSource control. The ObjectDataSource invokes a specified ...

Prepare for SQL Server Everywhere

Introduces SQL Server Everywhere, a slimmed-down version of SQL Mobile. SQL Everywhere removes the restrictions that keep the SQL Mobile product from running on a desktop or laptop, making SQL Everywh...

Cutting Edge: All About Enums

Dino Esposito reviews the basics of enumeration types and their implementation in the Microsoft .NET Framework....

Try SQL Server 2005 First-hand: Order the Trial DVD Today

Test SQL Server 2005 in your environment to see how it boosts security, scalability, and availability. The trial DVD gives you the full features and functionality of Microsofts next-generation data ma...

SQL Server 2005 Webcasts and Virtual Labs: Dig into the Details

Find out how to increase security, scalability, and availability. Choose from a wide range of live and on-demand webcasts. Or virtual labs, where you can try the features of SQL Server 2005 without an...

Fueling Knowledge, Accelerating Development at MEDC

Attend Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2006, May 8-11 in Las Vegas, and get the latest on building and bringing to market the next wave of devices, applications, content and services for the Windows Mobile a...

Adding Blogging to Your Apps with My.Blogs and Visual Basic 2005

My.Blogs is a collection of sample code that shows how to easily provide programmatic access to blogs in your applications. Chris Mayo shows how easy it is to read and publish blog entries within Visu...

Paste As Visual Basic: A Visual Studio Add-In That Converts C# Code To Visual Basic

Build a Visual Studio add-in that lets you copy C# code and paste it into Visual Studio as Visual Basic code using the translater of your choice. Scott Swigart shows you how....

MSDN TV: Using Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic 2005 Together

Jay Roxe discusses using Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic 2005 together. This includes a high-level description of COM Interop and some of the new features in Visual Basic 2005, including RegFree COM...

Moving Your Legacy Hardware Code to Visual Basic 2005

Bill Sempf shows you what's new with serial and parallel communication in Visual Basic 2005 and what it takes to migrate your legacy Visual Basic 6.0 hardware code to Visual Basic 2005....

New and Improved Security in the .NET Framework 2.0

Find out how the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 equip software development teams with several new features, tools, and aids to assist them in incorporating security features with minimal s...

MSDN TV: Late Binding in Visual Basic

Paul Vick and Erik Meijer discuss how late binding in Visual Basic allows more dynamic programming than is possible in some other .NET languages. They also show future ideas for how late binding may m...

TableAdapters in Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2005 expands typed data access with TableAdapter, a new object that greatly simplifies interacting with data objects on the client machine and sending updates to a database....

Free ASP.NET Learning Challenges for Visual Basic.NET Developers.

InnerWorkings presents a collection of ASP.NET learning challenges for Visual Basic .NET developers. InnerWorkings offers migration resources for VB developers FREE to MSDN users for a limited time! ...

Implement a Microsoft Word-like Object Model for Your .NET Framework Application

Omar Al Zabir shows you a way to implement a Microsoft Word-like object model for your own .NET Framework application, following the Model-View-Controller design pattern....

Methods and Masters: Visual Basic Migration Roadshow

Are you creating the same kind of tired applications that you have been building for the last 5-10 years If so, its time for you to experience what the latest advances in Visual Basic 2005. Sign up n...

Using Threading to Build a Responsive Application with Visual Studio 2005

Building multithreaded applications is easy with the new BackgroundWorker component in Visual Studio 2005, and it allows you to create interactive applications with minimal work....

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