Beth Massi
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Misfit Geek Podcast on the Future of VB
Joe Stagner’s second podcast is up and this time he’s interviewing the one and only Lisa...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/22/2009
Good Times at DevTeach, Vancouver
Last week I spoke at DevTeach in Vancouver which was held at the beautiful Four Seasons in downtown....
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/19/2009
WPF Data Binding Samples on Code Gallery
One of the many samples released for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that you should be aware of are...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/17/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Topic of the Week
Kathleen McGrath has started a series where she takes Visual Studio 2010 walkthroughs and...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/16/2009
Collection Initializers in Visual Basic 10
Visual Basic 10 (in Visual Studio 2010) is getting a new feature called Collection Initializers...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/05/2009
New Podcast Series on MisfitGeek.com
Joe Stagner, ASP.NET/Web community guru, has just launched a new podcast on MisfitGeek.com. In this...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/02/2009
Back from our Yosemite Vacation
Last week Alan and I headed up to Yosemite National Park with my sister and her boyfriend and Robert...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/02/2009
How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line
Ever wonder how we build Visual Studio and the .NET Framework? I mean literally. You know, the build...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/22/2009
I’ll be Speaking at DevTeach Vancouver – Be There!
I’m headed up to Vancouver June 8-12 for DevTeach. I love DevTeach because of it’s...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/18/2009
TechEd Sessions Online – My Favorites
Now that TechEd is over, you can head on over to TechEd Online and watch some interesting sessions...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/15/2009
Using TableAdapters to Insert Related Data into an MS Access Database
I’ve posted before about how to use TableAdapters to update parent-child (master-detail)...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/14/2009
Special Guest at EastBay.NET User’s Group Tomorrow Night
This month we have a good friend of mine and Microsoft Visual Basic MVP, Rob Windsor, coming all the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/12/2009
TechEd is Online
If you’re like me and couldn’t make it down to L.A. this year for TechEd, you can still...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/11/2009
Using the WPF ObservableCollection with EF Entities
The ObservableCollection is a special WPF collection that provides proper notifications to the UI...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/08/2009
CodeCast Episode 20 with Yours Truly!
In the latest episode of CodeCast, Ken interviews me about my role on the Visual Studio Community...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/07/2009
Notifying the UI when Entity References Change in Lookup Comboboxes
Last week I wrote about how to data bind WPF lookup comboboxes to entities returned from the Entity...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/04/2009
Visual Basic Forums Integrated into the Developer Center!
Nice! Now when you go any of the Visual Basic Forums on MSDN you’ll see the masthead and navigation...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/01/2009
Data Binding WPF Lookup Combobox Values to EF Entities
It’s extremely common to have to hook up lookup tables on your data entry forms in order to populate...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/30/2009
Visual Basic 2010 Preview on CodeCast with Lisa Feigenbaum
Codecast is a short (~25min) podcast by Ken Levy who runs around Microsoft grabbing interviews with...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/29/2009
Getting a Count of Unread Email in Outlook
Last post I was talking about DataSets and aggregating data with LINQ and the example I gave was...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/28/2009
Tally Rows in a DataSet that Match a Condition
Today I got a question that comes up often in data application programming about how to count rows...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/27/2009
Visual Basic Start Page News Channel in Visual Studio
I’ve had a couple questions lately on how to change the Visual Studio start page news feed so I...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/27/2009
OBA Part 5 - Building the SharePoint 2007 Workflow
In my last few app building posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/22/2009
dnrTV: More Fun with Office and XML Literals
Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly. This is a follow up from the last show...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/20/2009
Channel 9 Interview: Re-signing ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE
I just posted another interview on Channel 9. I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/08/2009
dnrTV: Showing off the Open XML SDK and LINQ
Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly. This time I’m talking about the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/07/2009
Let's GO OAKLAND!
It's my favorite time of year -- it's warm, days are long, and baseball season is here! Tonight is...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/06/2009
"WPF for LOB" Training Tour
In January I had the pleasure of attending Karl and Jamie's "WPF for line-of-business applications"...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/06/2009
Microsoft Beth 2009 - Has it really been two years!?
Last week marked the two year anniversary of my employment at Microsoft. Wow! I completely forgot...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/31/2009
"How Do I" Videos Now Linked to Visual Studio Help
Today Kathleen posted on her blog that the Visual Studio help topics in the library now contain...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/30/2009
Channel 9 Interview: No More Underscores in Visual Basic 10!
I just posted a new Channel 9 interview on a nifty little feature which isn't so little when you...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/27/2009
Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
I just popped a headline onto the Visual Basic Developer Center (which also appears on the VS start...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/25/2009
Channel 9 Interview: WPF Improvements in VS2010 for Business Apps
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 on WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/24/2009
Channel 9 Interview: Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic
I just posted a new interview on Channel 9 on using the Touchless SDK. The Touchless SDK enables...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/20/2009
The Low Bandwidth Version of the MSDN Library
This weekend Mary Lee posted on the VB Team blog some tips for navigating the MSDN Library. One...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/16/2009
OBA Part 4 - Building an Excel Client against LOB Data
In my last few app building posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/08/2009
Last Day at VSLive! San Francisco
I just finished my last talk of the conference on LINQ to XML and it was lots of fun as always. I've...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/26/2009
I'm Speaking at VSLive! San Francisco Next Week!
I'll be speaking in my own home town of San Francisco next week for VSLive! so if you're in the area...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/18/2009
Programming Entity Framework Book
Julie Lerman's Programming Entity Framework book just arrived today! I've been skimming around it...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/17/2009
Rocky Mountain Tech "Tri-fecta" this Saturday
I'll be speaking at the Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-fecta this Saturday Feb 21st in Denver, CO. So what...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/17/2009
Channel 9 Interview: ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET....
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/16/2009
OBA Part 3 - Storing and Reading Data in Word Documents
In my last few posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/12/2009
OBA Part 2 - Building an Outlook Client against LOB Data
In the last couple posts we've been talking about an Office Business Application (OBA) architecture...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/07/2009
OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data
Last post I talked about the high-level architecture of our Office Business Application for the new...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/03/2009
Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8
The last week I've been working with a couple teammates on an Office Business Application (OBA)...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/02/2009
Education Day: Creating WPF Line of Business Applications
Bay.NET is organizing an Education Day in Cupertino this Saturday the 31st which you should check...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/27/2009