The new DataRepeater control allows you use standard Windows Forms controls to display rows of your data in a scrollable container giving you more flexibility and customization than standard grid controls.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

In this interview, Brian Beckman, Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and brilliant physicist and we have a lot of fun with vectors and matrices and VB. I actually think I understood some of what Brian showed me ;).

Visual Basic is a great language for mathematics as well as all kinds of other applications. Brian makes the point that he has fun coding in VB because of its intuitive style and how easy it is to be immediately productive. Check out Brian's blog post on the VB Team blog! And for all you abstract algebra aficionados, here's the code to play with.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, VS Community

Join me and Lisa Feigenbaum, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, as she shows us how to use Refactor!, the free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that provides over 30 refactorings for Visual Basic. Lisa walks us through all the new refactorings that were added for the latest version of Visual Basic 2008. You can download Refactor! here. You can get the demo code she used here.

Enjoy!
-Beth Massi, VS Community

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast.

This session was presented by Amanda Silver and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.

Recorded September 2007.

In this interview Milind Lele, Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, shows us his favorite features - the new Data Synchronization designer in Visual Studio 2008 and how the sync services for ADO.NET work to support occasionally connected scenarios. He shows us how to set up a local database cache using SQL Compact Edition and how to use it to store read-only data caches as well as how to add the code to support two-way synchronization.

If anyone's ever tried to implement an occasionally connected smart client, they'll very much appreciate this new tooling and framework in Visual Studio 2008. For more information on sync services catch up on The Synchronizer blog.

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :-)

Introduction: Partial Methods is a new language feature of both C#3 and VB9, available via Visual Studio 2008 for projects targeting .NET Framework v2.0/3.0/3.5. Watch the 15' video for more.

Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here.

• Touchless SDK: http://touchless.codeplex.com/
• SDK Video: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=a89a217b-fc38-4a6c-87f8-ab59a2028391
• VB Game Source code: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vbtouchless
• VB Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam
• VB Dev Center: http://msdn.com/vbasic
• Office Labs: http://www.officelabs.com/

In keeping with what has become a holiday tradition here on Channel 9 he have Chris Anderson, Don Box and now Amanda Silver singing you a special holiday song.

You can compile along with them by grabbing the Very Beautiful holiday season!  For even more holiday cheer, please check out episodes I, II,III and )
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Global carbon regulation is arguably the largest risk and opportunity most corporations will face in the beginning of the 21st century. It has been estimated that turnover in the global carbon marketplace could exceed a trillion dollars in the next five to ten years. Voluntary and mandatory reporting protocols are emerging. How can an organization know its true carbon footprint and exposure? What options are available to manage corporate carbon risk? What impact can energy efficiency programs have on reducing a corporation’s carbon footprint? Read whitepaper

OSIsoft’s real-time monitoring solutions help companies improve the overall energy efficiency of their organization while simultaneously reducing its carbon footprint. In fact, Microsoft uses OSIsoft PI infrastructure for their Data Center Energy management. Also at a recent, OSIsoft user group meeting, Kodak presented on how they were able conserve energy and reduce their operational costs by using OSIsoft software.

Several case studies exist on OSIsoft’s website which can be viewed at http://www.osisoft.com/Resources/Case%20Studies

Here, we meet some of the developers who make PI and a surprise appearance by OSISoft's founder and CEO, Dr. Pat Kennedy.  What is PI, exactly? How does it work? Is it extensible?  

Cast of characters:

Prabal Acharya, ex-OSIsoft-customer to ex-engineering to now Director, Microsoft Global Alliance.
Alex Zheng, Team Lead, PI Server & Analytics
Jason King, Senior Developer, PI Clients
Denis Vacher, Lead Developer, PI Server Core and Niner
Dr. Pat Kennedy – Founder and CEO
Mark Hughes – CTO

See
Thursday, Jun 21 by Charles

This video is created for "Ask The Experts!" program on MSDN Online Japan with developer audience marketing team in Japan. 

In this video, Anders replyed to the questions for C# features, LINQ, and .NET Framework.  I put all questions as superimposed text in Japanese and English in the video.

We gathered the questions from Japanese users and developers on the following web site.
https://www.microsoft.com/japan/MSDN/community/askexperts/default.aspx

Also, we published the same video with Japanese subtitles using SAMI technlogy onto the following URL.
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/seminar/msdn/community/askexperts/andersh/play.aspx

The video length is 33 min. 39 sec.

このビデオは、"Ask The Experts!"の企画でデベロッパーオーディエンスマーケティングチームと一緒に作成したものです。Webで公募した質問から厳選し、マイクロソフトの担当者に問い合わせるというものです。
このビデオでは、アンダース　ヘルスバーグさんが、C#、LINQ、.NET Frameworkについて寄せられた質問に回答しています。
質問の内容はビデオ中に文字で表示されます。
日本語字幕つきのビデオは、次のアドレスでご覧いただけます。http://www.microsoft.com/japan/seminar/msdn/community/askexperts/andersh/play.aspx
なお、SAMI技術を利用して字幕を表示しています。
33分39秒のビデオです。