Beth Massi
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SF Bay.NET UG Tonight: Create a Custom Outlook Add-In using VSTO
If you’re in the Bay Area, come on out to downtown SF where Robin will be talking about...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/18/2009
Channel 9 Interview: Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010
In this interview I sit down with Saaid Khan, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team developing...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/18/2009
Channel 9 Interview: Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010
In this interview I catch up with Mike Morton, a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/16/2009
Check out New Features in the MSDN Library Documentation
There’s some changes coming to the MSDN library and documentation. Kathleen posted about the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/11/2009
Building Occasionally Connected Smart Clients with WPF
This month Dev Pro Connections has an article by Milind Lele on using Sync Services in a WPF...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/02/2009
History of Visual Studio
I just started catching up on a cool series on Channel 9: The Visual Studio Documentary The...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/28/2009
New Channel 9 Videos on Visual Studio 2010
I’ve noticed that folks have been busy creating video content on the newly released Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/27/2009
XAML Power Toys Released for Visual Studio 2010
I finally made my way back home from Europe and I’m still digging through all my email,...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/26/2009
WPF In-Depth with Billy Hollis
If you’re up in Redmond, the .NET Developers Association has a very special guest for their...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/12/2009
Basic Instincts MSDN Magazine Article: Collection and Array Initializers in Visual Basic 2010
I’ve written before about the new array and collection initializer support in Visual Basic...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/08/2009
A New Look is Coming to MSDN – See a Preview on the VB Dev Center
Today MSDN released a preview of what’s to come later this month on the Visual Basic Developer...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/08/2009
Great Article on Community
I just read a great article on DevProConnections by Michael K. Campbell, The SQL Server Community: A...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/02/2009
Congrats on your MVP Award!
Today Robin (a.k.a Robindotnet) was awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award in...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/01/2009
Silicon Valley Code Camp Oct. 3-4 : Schedule is up!
As I mentioned before, I’ll be speaking this weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/28/2009
Merging Text & Photos into a Word Document using Open XML SDK
Yesterday I posted about how we could create a letter generator (mail merge) that took data from a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/24/2009
Mail Merging Into a Single Word Document Using XML Literals
With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 we can work with a much simpler, standard, XML format...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/23/2009
Inserting Master-Detail Data into a SQL-Server Compact Edition Database
Yesterday John posted on the Visual Studio Data blog how to Refresh the Primary Key Identity Column...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/15/2009
What is Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy?
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Paul Yuknewicz, Lead Program Manager on the Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/14/2009
Speaking at the Central CA .NET Users Group Tommorrow Night!
Tomorrow I'll be speaking at the Central California .NET Users Group located in Fresno, CA. I'll be...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/09/2009
Rate and Ask Questions on How Do I Videos on the VB Dev Center
“How Do I” Videos have been an incredibly popular free training for Visual Studio developers for a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/03/2009
“Moving in” to Windows 7: My Favorite Features & Some Tips on Setup
Last week I installed Windows 7 Enterprise on my main laptop – a Lenovo T60p ThinkPad. I was up in...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/01/2009
Come to Silicon Valley Code Camp October 3rd & 4th
I’ll be speaking again this year at Silicon Valley Code Camp! Only 37 days left to register:...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/27/2009
New “How Do I” Videos Released on Entity Framework & WPF
Yesterday we released a couple more videos onto the Visual Basic Developer Center on building WPF...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/26/2009
DevProConnections Article: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007
This month I have an article on DevProConnections: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/17/2009
Auto Access to non-Indexed Collections : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the VB Compiler
I just finished a couple more How Do I videos on using EF with WPF using VS2008 SP1 (they’ll be...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/14/2009
Using Windows Presentation Foundation in Office Clients
I was cleaning up my desk today and in the piles of mail and gobs of paper I found the SDN Magazine...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/10/2009
MSDN Subscribers, Come and Get Windows 7 Today!
Window 7 is available to MSDN subscribers today! My friend is so excited she pinged me in IM and...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/06/2009
N-Tier Application Patterns with Entity Framework
This month’s MSDN Magazine has a particularly good article in there by Danny Simmons,...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/05/2009
Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex Adds Live Samples in Visual Basic
Today Justin updated the Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex with samples in Silverlight 3 that you can...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/03/2009
Working with a Local Database File in Visual Studio
In this post and video I’ve shown folks how to work with a local database file (.mdf, .mdb,...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/31/2009
Visual Basic Power Packs also included with Visual Studio 2010
If you’re like me and used to having line & shape controls, PrintForm and a handy...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/27/2009
WPF or Silverlight? Billy Hollis Shares His Thoughts on Channel 9
One of my favorite Visual Basic MVP’s, Billy Hollis, was caught at TechEd by the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/23/2009
Filtering Child DataTables Using TableAdapters
Since my last post on filtering child collections using Entity Framework, I have had more than a few...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/22/2009
Channel 9 Interview: LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008
Ever wonder what really happens when you write a simple LINQ query? Dim query = From row In...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/22/2009
Filtering Entity Framework Collections in Master-Detail Forms
Last post I talked about how to get WPF data binding to work with master-detail entity collections....
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/16/2009
Visual Basic 10, C# 4 & Visual Studio 2010 Talk @ EastBay.NET
On Wednesday I spoke at EastBay.NET User’s group at our new Livermore location and I have to...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/10/2009
Implementing Validation in WPF on Entity Framework Entities
I’ve blogged before about implementing validation on LINQ to SQL classes as well as how to customize...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/07/2009
Look Who’s Blogging!
I guess Robin and I inspired her on Monday when we had dinner together. Yes folks, Deborah Kurata...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/02/2009
New “How Do I” Video Series Released
I just released 3 new videos onto the VB Dev Center starting a new series on how to do WPF data...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/01/2009
Community Article: Getting Started with .NET RIA Services
We just published another community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by Maurice de...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/30/2009
Are you a “VB”?
At the MVP summit this year Kathleen and I asked MVPs using Visual Basic what kinds of applications...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/26/2009
Community Article: Automate Common Office Tasks
If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (VSTO MVP) up on...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/25/2009