Beth Massi
Sharing the goodness...
Visual Basic Silverlight Tutorials from MyVBProf
If you missed them, Visual Basic MVP Bill Burrows has been creating Visual Basic Silverlight...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/17/2010
Visual Studio BizApps Launch Content Rollup
Here on the Visual Studio BizApps team we’re always busy creating community content for our Dev...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/16/2010
Pictures from TechEd 2010 New Orleans
Wow! Did I have fun or what? I’m back home from a wonderful time at TechEd in NOLA. It was my...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/15/2010
Community Article: Programming the Task Bar in Windows 7 with WPF 4, Part One – Thumbnail Buttons
This week we published an article by VB MVP Alessandro Del Sole on how to utilize a cool Windows 7...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/02/2010
Updated blog platform for MSDN & TechNet blogs
Well it looks like the dust has finally settled from the huge blog migration here at Microsoft and...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/27/2010
Visual Basic 2010 Books
Last week we gave the books page on the Visual Basic Developer Center a face lift and added some new...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/16/2010
Bay Area Education Day on Saturday – OData, Cloud, SharePoint, Office, VB, C#, DLR
Come over to Foothill college on Saturday May 15th for a full day, two track education day with an...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/11/2010
Channel 9 Interview: Tips & Tricks with Business Data Connectivity Model Deployment in Visual Studio 2010
I'm back with Boris Scholl, the Program Manager who designed the BDC Model designer in Visual Studio...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/06/2010
VB Rules over Phoenix
Last weekend I was out in Phoenix spending some time with Alan and the natural beauty of the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/04/2010
Channel 9 Interview: Array and Collection Initializers in Visual Basic 2010
I’ve written about collection initializers here on this blog before, but I thought I’d...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/03/2010
More How Do I Videos: SharePoint Development with Visual Studio 2010
I just saw a tweet from Rob Windsor, VB MVP that he produced some How Do I videos on SharePoint and...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/27/2010
Add Spark to Your OData: Consuming Data Services in Excel 2010 Part 2
Last post I talked about how you can create your own WCF data services (OData) and use PowerPivot to...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/21/2010
Channel 9 Interview: Best Practices on Building SharePoint 2010 Web Parts with Visual Studio 2010
In this interview I caught up with a good friend, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on my team...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/20/2010
Add Spark to Your OData: Consuming Data Services in Excel 2010 Part 1
OData is an open REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web. Also known as...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/19/2010
Interop Forms Toolkit 2.1 Update for Visual Studio 2010
“Back to the future” as Todd put it. That’s right, the Interop Forms Toolkit has...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/15/2010
I’m Speaking Tonight @ East Bay.NET on SharePoint Dev Tools in VS2010
Tonight I’m going to give a preview of my Visual Studio 2010 launch demo on the new SharePoint...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/14/2010
Visual Studio 2010 RTM! New Resources, Samples, Videos, + more
Whooo hooooo! It’s been ~2 years in the making but Visual Studio 2010 has been released! This...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/12/2010
I’m Alive and Back from DevDays & TechDays Europe
Jet lag, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. That’s been my week so far preparing all the awesome content...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/09/2010
Open XML SDK 2.0 Released!
Many programs that need to process documents often require manipulation of the file formats directly...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/17/2010
DevTeach 2010 Recap
DevTeach is finally winding down and my sessions are all done. It’s been a great conference, as...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/11/2010
DevTeach Here I Come!
I’m heading up to Toronto this week for the DevTeach conference! I’ve spoken at DevTeach...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/08/2010
Office Development with Visual Studio Tutorial Series – Part 4
A couple months ago Robert Green, VSTO MVP, started a series of step-by-step tutorials on building...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/08/2010
Generic Co- and Contravariance in Visual Basic 2010
In this month’s issue of MSDN Magazine we’ve got an article on a new language/.NET 4 feature called...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/05/2010
Visual Basic Samples for a Variety of New Microsoft Technologies
Teams here at Microsoft have been cranking on a bunch of samples for the next releases of Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/04/2010
Special EastBay.NET Meeting this Wednesday with Julie Lerman (EF) & Kathleen Dollard (MEF)
This month we’re having a special meeting day, a week earlier than normal, on this Wednesday...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/01/2010
Dotfuscator Gets Better (and still FREE) in Visual Studio 2010
This week I’ve been learning about a free tool included with Visual Studio 2010 called...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/23/2010
Easily Search Only Your Own Forum Posts
A lot of times when I’m answering questions in the MSDN forums, I come across posts I know I’ve...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/18/2010
Office Development with Visual Studio Tutorial Series – Part 3
A couple months ago Robert Green, VSTO MVP, started a series of tutorials on building on Office...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/16/2010
“How Do I” Videos for Visual Studio 2010
If you haven’t seen these yet, various members of the languages team have released some How Do...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/09/2010
Updated Samples for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
If you haven’t heard, Jason Zander announced today that the Release Candidate (RC) for Visual...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/08/2010
SQL Server 2008 Express How Do I videos
Recently I’ve gotten a lot of questions about how to work with and connect to SQL Express...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/04/2010
Community Article: Certificate Expiration in ClickOnce Deployment
We just published another community article onto the Visual Basic and VSTO Developer Centers by...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/02/2010
New Learning Resources on the Visual Basic Developer Center
A couple months ago we revamped the Learn pages on the VSTO Developer Center with more content that...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/01/2010
Creating a SharePoint Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010
Last year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the Office...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/28/2010
New Blog from the WPF & Silverlight Designer Team Just Launched!
The WPF and Silverlight Designer team (a.k.a Cider team) launched a blog last week and they already...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/22/2010
Northwind Office Business Application Updated for Visual Studio, Office & SharePoint 2010
Last year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the Office...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/19/2010
Migrating a 2007 Workflow to Visual Studio & SharePoint 2010
Lately I’ve been converting an Office business application we built last year with Visual Studio...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/15/2010
Visual Studio 2010 “Tip of the Day” Returns!
If you used to rely on Sara Ford and her amazing Visual Studio tips you’ll be happy to know...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/13/2010
Speaking at East Bay.NET Tomorrow Night on VSTO & SharePoint 2010
Wow, welcome back from the holidays! I hope yours were as fun and relaxing as mine were. It's always...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/12/2010
Build WPF Data Controls for Outlook Addins Easily with VS2010
Last post I showed how to migrate our Northwind Outlook client to .NET 4 and Office 2010. This...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/21/2009
Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010
Early this year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/15/2009
Office Development with Visual Studio Tutorial Series – Part 2
Last month Robert Green, VSTO MVP, started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007. Today...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/08/2009
Setting up Windows 7 for Office & SharePoint 2010 Beta Development
So I decided to get my Windows 7 laptop installed with all the latest public Betas this week which...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/02/2009
New Learning Resources on the VSTO Developer Center
Last week we revamped the Learn pages on the VSTO Developer Center with more content that allows you...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 12/01/2009
Channel 9 Interview: Implementing a Silverlight SharePoint WebPart with Visual Studio 2010
Mike Morton is back at it again, this time showing how easy it is to develop, package and deploy a...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/25/2009
Channel 9 Interview: Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010
This time I interview a good friend of mine, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/23/2009
Channel 9 Interview: SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010
In this interview I sit down with Lily Ma, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building...
Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/19/2009