Beth Massi
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Channel 9 Interview: New Features for VS2008 Office Projects in SP1
I just posted an interview with Kris Makey, a Developer on the Office Client team. Here he shows us...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/29/2008
More Videos on ASP.NET MVC
Bill Burrows has released a new set of videos on the ASP .NET MVC Framework - Preview 4 Update which...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/27/2008
Channel 9 Interview: New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
I just posted another Channel 9 interview on SP1. This time, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/22/2008
Data on the Smart Client Talk at Bay.NET UG
Last night I spoke to SF Bay.NET user's group on Data Binding in Winforms and WPF, focusing on...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/21/2008
Better Data Editing Features in WPF with SP1
One of the things I was really missing from WPF when I started to dig into data binding was feature...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/19/2008
Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/15/2008
Office Developer Videos - Laughing and Learning at the Same Time
Harry Miller, programming writer for office development, has been producing office video tips on the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/14/2008
Sara Finishes Her Visual Studio Tips Book
One of my good friends Sara Ford finally finished her Visual Studio Tips book, based on her super...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/11/2008
Channel 9 Interview: SQL 2008 & Occasionally Connected Client Support in Visual Studio SP1
I just posted a new Channel 9 interview with Milind Lele, a PM on the VS Pro Tools team. In this...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/08/2008
Silverlight Slider Puzzle of Yours Truly
A Bay Area local Silverlight expert, Cal Schrotenboer, created a cool slider puzzle from a picture...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/01/2008
Comparing Two Open XML Packages with Open XML Diff
Yesterday I received an email from another employee here at Microsoft to check out this tool called...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/31/2008
Accessing Open XML Document Parts with the Open XML SDK
About a month ago the Open XML SDK 1.0 (June 08 update) was released. The SDK provides strongly...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/30/2008
Handy Visual Studio Add-In to View Office 2007 Files
Last month when I was in Redmond I mentioned to a colleague that I really liked the Open XML format...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/29/2008
Channel 9 Interview: Jared Parsons on the P-Invoke Interop Assistant
I just posted an interview screencast on Channel 9. In this interview, Jared Parsons, a Developer on...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/28/2008
WPF Forms over Data: 2 More Videos!
I couldn't wait for the content pages to prop onto MSDN to tell you that I just uploaded two more...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/24/2008
Channel9 Interview: Visual Basic Language Design Meeting
I sat down with the VB Language design team and asked them about their design process, favorite...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/23/2008
Keeping the Dev Centers Fresh with Social Bookmarking
Last week Chris Slemp from MSDN/TechNet interviewed me and 3 other top bookmarkers about how we use...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/22/2008
Community Article: Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation – Part 1
This week on the VB Dev Center we're featuring another community submitted article by Maurice de...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/17/2008
Silicon Valley Code Camp Registration Open
Peter Kellner (ASP.NET MVP) and crew are at it again this year organizing the 3rd annual Silicon...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/15/2008
Auto-Reply: Out of Office on Vacation
Yes, even Beth Massi gets a vacation. This year I have the pleasure of attending Nick Landry's...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/07/2008
NINE Questions
Chris Williams (VB MVP) is running around the net asking people nine questions. I'm one of the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/05/2008
TechEd Panel: VB XML Literals for C# Developers
This week TechEd Online posted the TechEd panel I was on with Erick Thompson and Shyam Pather of the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/03/2008
WPF Forms over Data Video Series
Yesterday I created a Code Gallery project with a couple videos on WPF data-based app development in...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/02/2008
Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/30/2008
Dynamic Data Entry with WPF and LINQ
In my last post on this subject I explored creating WPF UI's dynamically using XML literals. The one...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/24/2008
ACM Awards
On Saturday evening I had the privilege of attending the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/23/2008
Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word
Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and VSTO Portal, a new article Creating a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/13/2008
Dynamic UI with WPF and LINQ
Lately I've been getting my hands deep into WPF with my line-of-business (LOB)/data-based...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/12/2008
Check it out - VB Social Bookmarks
John mentioned that they just released a social bookmarking preview so that we can pop social feeds...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/30/2008
Visual Studio Launch Event, Reno NV
Since I live only about 200 miles from Reno I figured I would volunteer to deliver a session at this...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/27/2008
MSDN's New Look!
I got back late last night from the Visual Studio Launch event in Reno, NV (more on that later) but...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/23/2008
DevTeach - Last Day
Thursday: Okay I know it's Friday but I was the last session of the day yesterday and I didn't have...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/16/2008
DevTeach Day 2 - LINQ to Everything
Before I post about DevTeach Day 3 I thought I'd report back how the LINQ session I did yesterday...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/15/2008
DevTeach Day 2 - An Unexpected Turn
Wednesday: I woke up this morning (yes it was still morning, I made it to bed before 3am, I think),...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/14/2008
I Made it to Toronto! Day 0 and 1 at DevTeach
Monday: I wake up at 3:15am CA time and get to SFO to make a 6am flight to Toronto. (Note: Air...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/13/2008
Quickly Changing Values of XML Elements Using LINQ
I've had many questions lately on how you can query for a specific node in an XML document (or...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/09/2008
Visual Basic "Learn" Section of MSDN - Give it a Spin
The Learn tab of the Visual Basic Developer Center is being updated with a bunch of new content and...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/08/2008
Video Presentation: Conquering XML with LINQ in Visual Basic 9
The session I did last November at QCon in San Fransisco is online so check it out. In this talk I...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/30/2008
I'm Speaking at DevTeach, Toronto...
... and so are a bunch of other awesome speakers. Join us all at DevTeach (first time in) Toronto,...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/28/2008
Querying HTML with LINQ to XML
Often times we need to parse HTML for data. Sure in a perfect world everything would have a nice...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/25/2008
MVPs, VB and Me
The MVP summit was last week -- my first summit where I wasn't an MVP but instead an employee -- and...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/21/2008
LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 3 Database Transactions
In my previous posts this week I showed how to build a simple distributed application with a Windows...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/16/2008
LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 2 Building the Client
In my last post we built the service and data access layer for our LINQ to SQL N-Tier application....
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/14/2008
LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier
In my previous posts on LINQ to SQL I showed how to build LINQ to SQL classes and set up the data...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/12/2008
EastBay.NET Pleasanton UG Launch Event Tonight!
Come on over to the warm side of the Bay as we kick off hard-core Visual Studio 2008 development...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/09/2008
Resources for Building N-tier Applications
I've been getting a lot of mails lately from people trying to build n-tier applications with Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/09/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Launch - Hands On Labs
I was just informed that all the Hands On Labs from the Visual Studio/Windows Server/SQL Server 2008...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/04/2008