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I’m a VB !
30 June 09 05:08 AM | JackieG | 5 comment(s)
Check out the growing set of video and text interviews with leading VB developers at the I’m A VB site.   You can find my interview at Jackie VB . Cross Posted from http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/
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Using Speech Recognition to Program in Microsoft Visual Studio
08 June 09 12:20 AM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
We have just posted a very cool video showing off some of the work we have been doing with Voice Recognition. At Renaissance, we try to allocate time for our developers to explore new tools and technologies that are not necessarily related to their current projects. This speech application is the result of one such project developed by Kim Major ( http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/kim ). The video ( http://www.renaissance.co.il/VSSpeech.aspx ) offers a glimpse of our thinking and early implementation...
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Word Mail Merge with Attachment
06 April 09 10:19 AM | JackieG | 10 comment(s)
UPDATE #2:  Thanks to the comment by Tony, making 2 simple changes to the code eliminates the need for step (3) below. I’ve commented out the line Set oOutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application") and changed Set olNS = oOutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")                to ' By following change eliminates the security access prompts! 'Set olNS = oOutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set olNS...
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Just Released – Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight)
31 March 09 04:55 AM | JackieG | with no comments
The Microsoft Patterns and Practices group just Released a set of Quick Starts and How-To documents for using Prism in Visual Basic - Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) This release is provided to help Visual Basic developers use the Composite Application Library. The release includes QuickStarts, the Composite Application Library (only provided in C#), and documentation. The documentation includes: Visual Basic Content...
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March 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group
27 February 09 05:59 AM | JackieG | 359 comment(s)
This month we take a look at design and architecture, rather than specific technologies. Konstantin Triger, a Senior Consultant at Sela, will take a look at the deadly sins of performance, particularly from the design perspective.  It is important to remember that low-level implementation details are irrelevant if the high-end design accounts for 90% of the bottlenecks in the final product.  This session will help to make correct performance related decisions during design phase and will...
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Looking at .NET - From Both Sides Now
15 February 09 02:19 PM | JackieG | with no comments
Usually when we talk about comparing VB and C#, it is in the context of trying to show which language is better.  However, here is a different approach – a pair of articles that explain nuances of one language for developers who normally program in the other language.  A great first step towards understanding and “playing nicely together” :-) What C# Devs Should Know About VB What VB Devs Should Know About C# Cross Posted from http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/
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February 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group
02 February 09 02:36 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
This month we return to take a look at some of the web development technologies from Microsoft - Dynamic Data Controls (DDC) and Model View Controller (MVC). The new technology of ASP.NET DDC (Dynamic Data Controls) help us to build a presentation layer based on a data scheme in just a few minutes, and helps the developer and the architect to build a model based application that is scalable and easy to maintain. In the second session, we will build an ASP.NET applications based on the new MVC Framework...
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January 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group
24 December 08 03:45 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
January’s meeting will be a joint meeting for IVBUG, IVCUG, and .NET Architects User Groups, so that we can all take advantage of a special guest speaker – Juval Lowy from IDesign. Juval is a world-famous expert on WCF and Connected Systems and will be sharing his expertise with us in this session: Introducing the .NET Service Bus The .NET services bus is part of the new Microsoft Cloud Computing Windows Azure initiative, and arguably, it is the most accessible, ready to use, powerful, and needed...
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Heading Off to VSLive Dallas
05 December 08 07:30 AM | JackieG | with no comments
Next week I'll be in Dallas to speak at the VSLive conference there. Below are the 3 sessions I'll be presenting there - you can get all of the conference details at VSLive Dallas . VS Tools and Techniques for Distributed Data Access in VS 2008 This session will discuss several challenges facing developers developing distributed data access applications. These issues include hierarchical updates, use of VS tools to generate truly N-tier applications, separation of data entity and data access...
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September 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group
28 August 08 04:47 AM | JackieG | with no comments
This month we return to dig deep into code. The use of generics for .NET programming is a somewhat different, but extremely powerful and efficient, way of writing code. Pavel Yosifovich, CTO of Michlelet Hi-Tech, will get us all up to speed on using generics in our code. In the first session, he will explain the motivation for generics (in its various forms) and discuss the following: The need for Generics Generic types, interfaces, methods Generic delegates and events In the second session, Pavel...
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Bill Gates and Microsoft - Historical Moments
29 July 08 05:06 AM | JackieG | with no comments
The big news in the software industry this past month has been the departure of Bill Gates from involvement in day to day activity at Microsoft. The following two videos, while not necessarily humorous, should still bring a smile to your face. They may serve as an inspiration as well. Looking Back, Moving Ahead - This 15-minute video is a very human look at the history of Bill Gates and Microsoft. Worth a Thousand Words - We’ve all seen the famous picture of the original eleven goofy-looking members...
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July 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group
26 June 08 04:42 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
SQL Server 2008 is almost here – the first release candidate was just released – do you know what it offers for application developers? Dubi Lebel, from Microsoft Israel, will fill us in on the more important benefits for developers, in this 2-session presentation. We will start with an overview of what is new in Manageability, Availability, Security and Performance and then drill down into specific new Database Features Introduced in SQL Server 2008 such as: Spatial Data support Filestream storage...
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June 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group (IVBUG)
29 May 08 09:22 PM | JackieG | with no comments
One of the most important new technologies for .NET, that we haven’t really covered in any of our IVBUG meetings, is WPF – Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows applications. It provides both developers and designers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences (and is the basis of Silverlight for Web applications) that incorporate UI, media, and documents. In the first part of his presentation,...
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Visual Basic Makes it to Prime Time TV (CSI New York)
26 May 08 04:21 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
Check out this short scene from last week’s CSI New York ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s And they say that VB gets no respect...
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Notes on TechEd Israel 2008
18 April 08 11:42 AM | JackieG | with no comments
Last week was the (now) semi-annual TechEd Israel conference. This was my sixth time participating in this event - I have given presentations at all six TechEds here. The conference is an amazing experience and has come a long way from 2000/2001 when we had to lobby Microsoft Israel to put on such an event. There were about 3,500 participants - about half the amount of TechEd EMEA for all of Europe! The attendees enjoyed most of the sessions/speakers and the speakers enjoyed the interactions and...
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