November 2007 - Posts
In this video interview, Anders Hejlsberg, the chief architect of C#, describes features in the next release of C#, code named Orcas. Anders first describes how LINQ solves the impedance mismatch between the code that lives on a database server and the code we write with standard programming languages such as C# or VB. He then outlines the new capabilities that functional programming will bring to developers.
Visual Basic programmers will learn how to write simple LINQ queries over objects by navigating files on the file system.
Visual Basic programmers will learn how to perform group and aggregate queries over business object collections and how to display them in related grids.
Visual Basic programmers will learn how to write LINQ queries that work over DataSets by filtering and aggregating rows in a one-to-many relationship.
Visual Basic programmers will be introduced to LINQ to SQL and the new O\R designer in Visual Studio 2008 by querying and updating a list of customers in the Northwind database.
Visual Basic programmers will see how to create a One-to-Many (Master-Detail) Data entry form using the O\R Designer and LINQ to SQL.
Visual Basic programmers will learn about the new multi-targeting feature and how to upgrade projects written in Visual Basic 2005 to Visual Basic 2008 Beta 2 in order to enable different LINQ providers.
Visual Basic developers will learn how to work with XML in Visual Basic using XML literals, embedded expressions and XML axis properties to create, query and transform XML documents easily.
Visual Basic developers will learn how to enable XML IntelliSense using schemas and how XML namespaces are used when querying and creating XML documents.
Visual Basic developers will learn how to query their SQL Server database in order to easily create XML and HTML documents directly in the Visual Basic editor.
Visual Basic developers will learn how to query their SQL Server database in order to easily create Excel spreadsheets directly in the Visual Basic editor using LINQ to XML.
Although WPF is less than a year old, we’re already putting the finishing touches to an update that will add some neat features and improvements, improve internationalization support and increase performance. In this video, Charles Torre (and Dr Sneath, when he finally turns up) sit down with Kevin “Bag’o’Tricks” Moore as he provides a whirlwind tour of the improvements and changes you can expect to see in WPF 3.5 (which ships as part of "Orcas").
Author: Charles Torre
Take a tour of the new features and changes to the Integrated Development Environment in Visual Studio 2008. See the updated web page editor, WPF form designer, CSS editor, and more.
Visual Studio 2008 provides a great tool for building Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. The design interface allows a developer to drag and drop controls, set properties, and manipulate layout without writing any code. However, Visual Studio also provides the capability to write XAML directly as well. The purpose of this presentation is to build a simple WPF application utilizing the tools in Visual Studio 2008.
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