Beth Massi
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Visual Studio Tip of the Day Browser
I'm sitting here with writer's block on an article I'm supposed to be writing so in order to coax...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/07/2007
I'm Speaking at DevTeach Nov 26th - 30th
I'll be speaking at DevTeach in Vancouver November 26th - 30th. This is a great conference that I've...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/06/2007
Visual Studio 2008 to be Released this Month!
If you missed the BIG announcement, Soma announced during the keynote at TechEd Barcelona that we...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/05/2007
Content Rollup For September and October
Here's a summary of all the content the VB team members, including myself, have created for you on...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/05/2007
New Community Article - Using Business Objects with WCF
There's a new article up on the VB Dev Center by Rob Windsor, a follow up from his first Getting...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/02/2007
New Visual Basic LINQ to XML Videos Released!
We just released a new set of How-Do-I videos in our LINQ series on LINQ to XML in Visual Basic....
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/01/2007
XML Literals Tips/Tricks
A couple quick tips here when using XML literals in your Visual Basic programs. #1: I've started...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/26/2007
Beth's Boo Boo
No this isn't a Halloween "Boo" as in ghost, but rather a big boo boo or small-ish injury to my...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/25/2007
Using My.Settings and WCF Configuration with the Interop Forms Toolkit
Recently I received a question from a customer asking how to get an Interop User control developed...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/24/2007
I'm Speaking at Silicon Valley Code Camp
This weekend is Silicon Valley Code Camp and I'll be speaking on LINQ. I've got two Saturday morning...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/24/2007
Embed Code and Avoid Underscores in Your Multiline Strings
One of the things I most dearly missed from FoxPro when I moved to VB.NET was the ability to easily...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/23/2007
Channel 9 Interview with Erik Meijer and Dave Thomas
If you missed this intriguing interview on Channel 9 with Erik Meijer and Dave Thomas you should...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/22/2007
Silverlight Does Steely Dan
Carl Franklin, the master mind behind .NET Rocks and long time Visual Basic guru, is also an AMAZING...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/22/2007
6 Months at Microsoft - I made it!
Today marks my 1/2 year anniversary at Microsoft - wow - it's gone by so fast! I guess because I've...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/19/2007
Control Your Wiimote with Visual Basic
Check out this cool article on Coding4Fun that shows you how you can control the Wiimote (the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/18/2007
Channel 9 Interview: Sara Ford on Community, Open Source, and Katrina
One of my former teammates and good friend, Sara Ford, did an amazing interview on Channel 9 where...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/17/2007
Visual Basic WPF Samples - Basic Brushes
A few days ago, Patrick Dengler from the VB Team released more VB WPF samples based on Charles...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/17/2007
Getting Started with LINQ to XML
As Rob points out (I actually noticed his post on the Dev Center today!) there are some How-Do-I...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/16/2007
MSDN geekSpeak: Generics in Visual Basic
Listen to the always entertaining Jim Duffy, Visual Basic MVP, talk about generics and more in...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/14/2007
Visual Basic WPF Samples
If you haven't noticed, Patrick Dengler from the VB Team has started releasing VB WPF samples based...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/12/2007
Visual Studio Content - Tell Us What You Think!
The documentation team has just released a survey aimed at gathering feedback on Visual Studio...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/12/2007
Spelunking the DOM with Silverlight 1.1
If you missed it, earlier this week we posted Rod Paddock's followup article on Silverlight onto the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/11/2007
Channel 9 Interview - Offline Data Synchronization Services in Visual Studio 2008
Earlier today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Milind Lele showing us his favorite VS 2008...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/10/2007
I'm Speaking Tonight!
If you're in the East Bay Area tonight, head on down to the Pleasanton EastBay.Net group where I'll...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/10/2007
Scott Hanselman on VB9's New "XML Hotness"
I've just gotten caught up on Scott Hanselman's latest Hanselminutes and wanted to point out this...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/09/2007
LINQ to SQL and One-To-Many Relationships
Recently a customer sent me a question related to the video I posted on creating a one-to-many form...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/02/2007
Using Data Across Multiple Windows Forms
Recently I've had more than a few questions about how to handle working with data across multiple...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/01/2007
Visual Basic Blog in Chinese!
The Visual Basic test team members in Shanghai just started translating the Visual Basic Team blog...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/27/2007
New VB Dev Center Feeds
I blogged last week about the new face lift that the Visual Basic Developer Center got and more...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/25/2007
Barton Learns Visual Basic!
I recently convinced a friend of mine, Barton Friedland (founder of Bay.NET and rock star), to take...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/20/2007
Beth and Charlie Hit the Stage
Today .NET Rocks posted the show I did with Charlie Calvert. I really enjoyed my time with Carl,...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/20/2007
Binding Multiple Combo Boxes to the Same Data Source
Recently the VB Team received a customer bug submitted through Connect that had to do with binding...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/19/2007
Another Way to LINQ
I was reading another installment of ScottGu's articles on his blog about using LINQ to SQL in...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/13/2007
.NET Rocks! on LINQ to XML
Just to add to the plethora of content available on LINQ, I want to point out the latest .NET Rocks!...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/12/2007
How Do I Video Walk-Throughs from the Community
A very generous VB community member, Bob Schild, sent these to me to post here to share with the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/11/2007
Me and Charlie on .NET Rocks!
So I'll be recording a .NET Rocks! show with Charlie Calvert (my developer community counterpart on...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/10/2007
Channel 9 Interview - John Stallo on Building N-Tier Applications in VS 2008
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with John Stallo talking about some cool tools in Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/10/2007
Visual Basic Content Rollup for July and August
So I decided to post a summary of all the content the VB team members, including myself, have...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/06/2007
Resizing Images Stored in SQL-Server
In SQL-Server we can store images inside database tables directly using the Image column type. And...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/28/2007
Channel 9 Interview - LINQ to SQL and the O/R Designer in VS 2008
I just posted another great interview on Channel 9 with Young Joo talking about LINQ to SQL and the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/27/2007
LINQ to SQL Videos from the Community
Bill Burrows has done it again and created a series of videos to help get you started with LINQ to...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/20/2007
More LINQ "How Do I" Videos Just Released
I just released three more LINQ how-to videos, #3, #4 and #5 and they're up on the Developer Center...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/20/2007
Channel 9 Interview - Amanda Silver on LINQ
I just posted an interview with Amanda on Channel 9 where she walks us through the new LINQ syntax...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/17/2007
New Community Article Just Posted - Getting Started with WCF
Kerby just posted Rob Windsor's first article onto the community page on the Visual Basic Developer...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/14/2007