Beth Massi
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ADO.NET Data Services - Intercepting Queries and Adding Validation
Last few posts I've been building a WPF client against ADO.NET Data Services, if you missed them:...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/21/2009
ADO.NET Data Services - Enforcing FK Associations and a Fix for Deleting Entities
Last post I described one way to build a smart client in WPF against ADO.NET Data Services. In this...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/20/2009
WPF Drag-Drop Data Binding on dnrTV & WPF Business App Resources
I'm still catching up from holiday vacation so I just watched my dnrTV episode today that I filmed...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/07/2009
New WPF "How Do I" Video on Formatting Data Entry
We just released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/06/2009
New Year's Resolution from MSDN Magazine
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday like I did. My family went on a cruise...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/05/2009
Working From Home - In Redmond!?!
I've been up in Redmond this week for a regularly scheduled office visit but instead of 5 days of...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/19/2008
Attaching a Local SQL Server Database Using sqlcmd
I've been getting asked a lot lately about how to easily attach a local SQL Server/Express database...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/18/2008
SmallBasic Version 0.2 Released
I've played a bit with SmallBasic and blogged about it before -- it's great for anyone just learning...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/18/2008
Community Article: Scaling ADO.NET DataTables
We just released a new community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by one of our MVPs,...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/17/2008
Formatting Data in WPF Controls
One of the basic things that we need to do as business application developers is to make sure that...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/12/2008
Visual Studio 2008 - Visual Basic Key Bindings Poster
The VB Team just anounced the VB Key Bindings poster for VS 2008. Sweet!! I didn't even know about...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/12/2008
Master-Details with Entity Framework Explicit Load
Unlike LINQ to SQL, in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 explicit loading is the default behavior in...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/10/2008
Why I Love Blogging
A member of the developer community, Andreas Håkansson (a.k.a The Code Junkie), is running a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/09/2008
Happy Birthday Visual Basic Tips & Tricks Community!
Today, December 8th, is the 10 year anniversary of the Italian Visual Basic Tips and Tricks...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/08/2008
Channel 9 Interview: WPF Drag-Drop Data Binding in Visual Studio 2010
And speaking of RAD with WPF.... I just posted a new Channel 9 video with Milind Lele, Program...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/26/2008
WPF Forms over Data Gets Easier in Visual Studio 2010
Today I was looking at comments on one of my WPF videos on how to create a Master-Detail form in WPF...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/25/2008
Office Development with Visual Studio Developer Center Just Launched!
Everything you need to know about building Office solutions in Visual Studio is on the new Office...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/20/2008
I'll Be Freezing... uh... Speaking at DevTeach Montreal in December
I'll be speaking at DevTeach in Montreal December 1st - 5th this year.... brrrrr!!!! I guess I need...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/17/2008
WPF RSS Feed Aggregator on CodePlex
Alessandro Del Sole, Visual Basic MVP, has been busy on CodePlex writing a neat WPF learning...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/12/2008
Loading Data and Binding Controls in WPF with CollectionViewSource
When designing WPF Windows with data (or as I usually refer to them WPF "Forms") we have...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/07/2008
I'm Speaking at Silicon Valley Code Camp on Saturday Nov. 8th
There are over 1100 people registered for the Silicon Valley code camp this year! Wow! That's a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/05/2008
New WPF How Do I Videos Released!
I posted two more WPF "Forms over Data" videos onto the Developer Center that you should check out....
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/03/2008
Halloween Recovery
Our party was a blast on Halloween night. Alan and I were a little torn up: But luckily we had a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/02/2008
HAPPY HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
My favorite holiday is Halloween and I'm throwing a huge party at my super-freaky haunted house....
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/31/2008
Learn How to Program with Small Basic
Microsoft Developer Labs has released Small Basic, a simple programming language based on BASIC and...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/24/2008
Community Article: Enabling Speech Recognition in Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
If you missed it, yesterday we released a new community submitted article onto the Visual Basic...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/22/2008
Channel 9 Interview: ADO.NET Data Services in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
In this interview Saaid Kahn, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team (and former...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/21/2008
Editing Data from Two Tables in a Single DataGridView
I've had a lot of questions lately on how to display data from two separate tables in the database...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/15/2008
First Day at SDN Conference
I'm here in the Netherlands in a town called Noordwijkerhout near Amsterdam at the SDN Conference...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/07/2008
MSDN Magazine - Dynamic Data Entry With XML Literals
Check out the latest news on the VB Dev Center. I'm finally headlining myself ;-) I'm in the October...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/01/2008
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Tutorials
Bill Burrows has released more video tutorials! This time he focuses on the ASP.NET Dynamic Data...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/30/2008
Data Sources and Data Binding in WPF Talk in Redmond
On Monday night I spoke at my first .NET users group here on the Microsoft Campus. It was the Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/24/2008
Silverlight 2 How Do I Videos
If you're interested in learning about Silverlight, check out the How Do I videos on Silverlight 2,...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/22/2008
Enabling Remote SQL Express 2008 Network Connections on Vista
Today I spent way too long trying to enable remote network connections on my SQL 2008 Express...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/17/2008
Editing Tabular Data in WPF - Building a WPF Grid
In my last post on WPF I showed how you could use a Winforms DataGridView on a WPF form in order to...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/15/2008
Social Bookmarking V1 Launched (I'm in the How-To Video!)
Chris posted this week about the new version of our social bookmarking platform and he's got a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/12/2008
What's New in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - Client and Data Features
Last night I spoke at East Bay.NET UG on some of the new features in Visual Studio Service Pack 1...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/11/2008
Community Article: Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation, Part 2
Maurice is on fire with his latest series of Workflow articles on the Visual Basic Developer center....
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/10/2008
Channel9 Interview: Meet the VS "Development Experience" Team
I just posted another Channel9 interview. This time I meet with the team that brings us the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/08/2008
For Sale: 2003 ESX Stage 4 Subaru WRX
Option Personal On UPDATE: THIS IS SOLD Yes it's time to sell the Subaru. (I know I rarely write...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/06/2008
New Features Launched on the Visual Basic Developer Center
In the past month or so we've been working hard to redesign some parts of the Visual Basic Developer...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/05/2008
Editing Tabular Data in WPF Using the Winforms DataGridView
A pretty common requirement of any business application is to be able to edit data in a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/04/2008