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The VB team has release a new version of the LINQ preview bits. You can download the January preview and check out the latest MSDN TV episode on link at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/Future/default.aspx . For those of you unsure of what LINQ is, it
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This sounds like a cool event for web developers, here is the marketing blurb: Attend the MIX conference, a LIVE! conversation between web developers, designers and business leaders, being held in Las Vegas from March 20 - 22 at the Venetian hotel with
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The patterns and practices team has just released a new Composite UI Application Block. Below is a short summary, or you can get more information here . The Composite UI Application Block December 2005 Release is a source code-based component built on
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When we rolled out the new Developer Center pages with the VS 2005 launch last week one of things that we deployed was a couple of reporting tools that we are doing a comparison and analyses of. One of the most interesting reports to me was a report that
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You should install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 on a clean machine, that is one that did not have a prior BETA or CTP installed on it. This is not possible for everyone and there are many people that had prior builds installed. Dan Fernandez
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The first Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005 has been released. According to the downloads page it contains: The Feature Pack is a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2005. It includes: Latest versions
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New on the ASP.NET site today is a cool thing for deployment -- Web Deployment projects. (Download here .) This is an add-in VS project type that manages an MSBuild file and lets manage you all sorts of build configurations, pre- and post-processing,
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It’s official, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are now launched. Not only can the general public purchase both of these products, but the trial downloads are available as well as the no-cost Express downloads . As part of the launch MSDN has released
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Now that Visual Studio is gold and has been RTMed if you are working with the LINQ preview you will need to update your machine to a newer build of LINQ. You can grab the bits from here .
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Visual Studio 2005 (Standard, Pro, and Express versions) and SQL Server 20005 has been released and are avaialbe for download for MSDN subscribers . For a good overview of the new features in Visual Basic 2005 check out Ken Getz's article . For more in
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The VB team has posted a new video on Channel9 about Code Snippets in VS2005. Click here to check out the 38min show. Here are some of the exciting topics that you can look forward to hearing about: What code snippets are and why they were created in
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Normally I don't like to make entries that are just a collection of links, but this time I will make an exception. Here are some other blogs and posts about the future of Visual Basic and Project LINQ: http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/09/13/10501.aspx
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Today we just posted the My.Blogs sample . This is a great demonstrations by Chris Mayo and others on the Visual Basic team that shows you how to extend the My object in Visual Basic 2005. Besides being a great My extension sample it, since it is built
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Today at PDC the future direction of Visual Basic is being discussed. We have posted some resources on MSDN to help developers learn about some of the new futures, such as Project LINQ. Check out the VB Future page. Also, if you could not make PDC we
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Ok, got your attention with the title. The Code Snippet team has started a discussion on the MSDN Forums asking folks to submit there most request code snippet. If you are not familiar with code snippets in 2005 check out the Code Snippet FAQ . While
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