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October 2007 - Posts

VS 2008 Beta 2 VPC images will timebomb on 11/1/2007

posted Friday, October 26, 2007 6:13 PM by jwooley
If you downloaded the VPC image version of Visual Studio 2008 beta 2, make sure to back-up your data and move anything off of the Team Foundation Server before November 1, 2007. I was just informed that the images will be time bombing on November 1 2007 Read More
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Creating HTML emails using VB 9 and LINQ

posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:41 PM by jwooley
Today, I'm not looking at sending mass spam using LINQ to pull a list of recipients. I'm actually referring to the ability to generate the message body using XML Literals. Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage object, we can easily send emails to an SMTP Read More
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Adding RSS posts to ThinqLinq using System.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationFeed

posted Friday, October 12, 2007 12:58 AM by jwooley
When I originally started the ThinqLinq project I began by loading the RSS feed from my DevAuthority blog, and iterating over the results adding them to the PostItems table in the data context. With LINQ this is relatively easy. Loading the XML from the Read More
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Code Snippets and Partial Methods

posted Monday, October 08, 2007 9:59 PM by jwooley
In my VB 9 language enhancements talks, I do them withalmost all coding on the fly as I find people often can comprehend the code. I start by building a quick class that is used throughout the demos. To assist, I do use the snippet functionality in VB. Read More
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Code Camp 2007 downloads

posted Monday, October 08, 2007 9:22 PM by jwooley
I've uploaded the files for my presentations for the fall Code camp season which I just presented last weekend at the Birmingham, Alabama code camp. If you missed the talks, you can pick up the downloads at the following links. Also, I will be at the Read More
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