Beth Massi
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Webcast Tomorrow - Redux - LINQ to XML in Visual Basic
If you missed my March 21st webcast on LINQ to XML in VB then you get another chance to join me live...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/03/2008
Video Tutorials on ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) Framework
Bill Burrows, Visual Basic MVP, has done it again and is creating another series of video tutorials...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/01/2008
Webcast Starting! -- Migrating from VB6 to .NET
Come join me and Rob Windsor in 30 minutes for a webcast on how to move your VB6 investments to...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/28/2008
LINQ to XML Webcast Added to the VBeth Webcast Series
That's right, I'm doing this one again on April 4th since I got such a great turnout! (Let's hope...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/21/2008
Webcast Tomorrow! - Working with XML in Visual Basic
I'll be delivering a webcast tomorrow morning on LINQ to XML in VB. I'll show lots of cool demos I...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/20/2008
Happy Anniversary -- 1 Year at Microsoft -- I made it!
Today is my one year anniversary here at Microsoft. I can't believe how time flies - it must be...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/19/2008
New Video Tutorials from the Community
Bill Burrows, Visual Basic MVP has just released a new set of video tutorials on using Excel for...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/18/2008
Watch 48 New Visual Basic "How Do I" Videos!
We added 48 How Do I videos (Forms over data, Windows development, Office development and Security)...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/18/2008
Webcast Tomorrow! - Introduction to LINQ in Visual Basic
I'll be delivering a webcast tomorrow morning on an intro to LINQ in VB. If you're lost or just want...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/06/2008
Channel 9 Interview - Tips and Tricks with the Interop Forms Toolkit
I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Todd Apley, Senior Test Lead on the VB Team, where he shows...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/04/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event
Even though Visual Studio 2008 has been available since mid-November, today is the official Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/27/2008
Webcast on VB6 Migration to .NET
I just added another webcast for March 28th on VB6 migration to .NET to the list of March madness...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/26/2008
Simple Validation with LINQ to SQL Classes
In the last few posts on LINQ to SQL I've showed how to set up an object model using the O/R...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/25/2008
Support for SQL 2008 Data Types Coming into LINQ to SQL
Check it out, on the ADO.NET Team blog Faisal Mohamood, a PM on the LINQ to SQL team, posted on the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/22/2008
Join Me in San Francisco Tonight!
I'll be speaking tonight at the grand re-opening of Bay.NET at their new location near Macy's...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/20/2008
One-To-Many (Master-Detail) Forms with LINQ to SQL
In previous posts this month I showed how to use LINQ to SQL classes with a couple different...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/19/2008
New Community Article - Windows Workflow 101
We just released a new article by VB MVP, Maurice DeBeijer on getting started with Windows Workflow...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/18/2008
LINQ Enabled Personal Web Site Starter Kit
Jim Wooley, VB MVP, has rewritten the original Personal Web Starter Kit using LINQ for the data tier...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/13/2008
Live From Bethmond Webcasts (The VBeth Webcast Series)
I'll be doing a series of webcasts next month that you should check out if you're trying to get...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/12/2008
Using XML Literals in Code Generation
A while back I showed a very simple way you could use XML Literals to generate code. In my previous...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/11/2008
Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL
In yesterday's post I showed you how to bind LINQ to SQL classes to a Combobox in order to filter...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/07/2008
Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL
In a previous post I showed how to set up related data binding using ComboBoxes against DataSets and...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/06/2008
What's New in Visual Basic 9
I'm here in Denver, Colorado where the sun shines bright and the snow is white! I spoke at a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/01/2008
Visual Basic Samples on Code Gallery
Yesterday Soma announced The MSDN Code Gallery where Microsoft employees and the community can post...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/29/2008
Visual Basic in the HOOOOUUUUSSSSEEEE
Man! I haven't blogged all week and I'm going through withdrawal. I've been up in Redmond with the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/25/2008
Channel 9 Interview: XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense
Yesterday I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/18/2008
Taking Your SQL Knowledge and Applying it to LINQ
If you haven't seen it yet, Bill Horst has a great series of posts on the VB Team blog on Converting...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/14/2008
Get LINQ in Your Brain Over at ThinqLinq.com
Visual Basic MVP, Jim Wooley, just launched a site called ThinqLinq that's completly written in...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/10/2008
I'll be Speaking in Phoenix and Denver this Month
Tim Heuer and Joe Shirey are putting together free developer and architect focused events in Phoenix...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/08/2008
The New TableAdapterManager in Visual Studio 2008
In my previous post on TableAdapters and Transactions I showed a couple techniques on how to perform...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/07/2008
Content Rollup for November and December
Here's a summary of all the content the VB team members, including myself, have created for you on...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/04/2008
I'll Be Speaking at Code Camp in Victoria, BC
I'll be speaking at the Victoria Code Camp on January 26th so if you're in the area and you have...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/03/2008
Migration from VB6 to .NET on dnrTV
There's still a lot of Visual Basic 6 systems running the world and if you're one of the developers...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/02/2008
Channel 9 Interview: Brian Beckman Does Higher Algebra with Visual Basic
Today I posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman , Principal Developer (currently working...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/19/2007
Hanselminutes Podcast 92 - Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick
Scott posted a podcast with with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, Senior...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/17/2007
Channel 9 Interview: XML Literals Performance and Namespaces Explained
I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/14/2007
Channel 9 Interview: Refactoring in Visual Basic with Refactor!
I just released a Channel 9 screencast with Lisa Feigenbaum, PM on the VB IDE Team, where she shows...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/11/2007
New VB Community Article: Creating Visual Studio Add-ins
Rod Paddock's latest Community Article is up on the Visual Basic Developer Center on Creating Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/10/2007
Lambda Expression Fun with Visual Basic
One of the Dev's, Matt Manela, on my VS community team has started playing with Visual Basic. I...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/07/2007
Mail Merging with Word, LINQ and XML Literals in VB
I've mentioned before that you can use XML literals in VB 9 to do text merging so I figured it...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/06/2007
DevTeach Part Deux
My second day at the conference has been the best so far. First off, I presented a great session on...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/29/2007
First Day at DevTeach
I'm up in Vancouver at DevTeach and I have to say that so far it's been a great conference! I did a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/28/2007
Visual Studio Tip of the Day - Let's Build an Add-In
Yesterday the VS Ecosystem team released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 and the Visual Studio 2008...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/21/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Released!
Early holiday gifts from Microsoft! Today we announced the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/19/2007
Merging XML using Visual Basic 9
I made some modifications to my Visual Studio Tip of the Day browser application I created last...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/13/2007
Visual Basic WPF Samples - The Concept of Content
If you missed Young's post on the VB Team blog, he has started helping Patrick convert all the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/13/2007
Channel 9 Interview: Type Inference in Visual Basic with Bill Horst
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Bill Horst, a member of the Visual Basic QA team. Bill...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/08/2007