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I was just reading a work around for timestamps with LINQ or WCF, and I must be stupid, but I just don't get it. In fact, ever since dotnet came out mapping timestamp to a byte array or SqlBinary, I never got why they did that. Timestamp is 8 bytes...
Does VB need prefix and postfix increment and decrement operators ? Here's an example I posted today for a question on adding an index with LINQ: Sub Main() Dim values() As String = { "aaa" , "bbb" , "ccc" } Dim index...
If you want to download the videos to watch later, or to happily play them faster, skip ahead etc, then you can grab the .wmv files instead of having to watch them in a browser in silverlight. I like to increase the play speed in parts and silverlight...
in VB 2008 you get a great intellisense experience when working with XML axis properties if you add the schema(s) to your project. You don't need to add the actual schema, you can just add a link. From the Project menu select Add Existing Item, browse...
Visual Studio magazine's January On VB column, by your's truly, has a quick reference guide to what's new in VB 2008 . The guide includes links to earlier articles that provide more in depth information on specific features. Errata for my...
RJ posted an interesting entry about LINQ to XSD. The early LINQ to XSD bits that surfaced back in Orcas Beta 1 or thereabouts were basically an object layer of the underlying xml data. It was better than *just* an object model in that much of the XElement...
If you programmatically add attributes with namespaces to an XElement, when the XElement is written out it will give each attribute a namespace prefix and then define a xmlns for that prefix. The way XElement does this is first it examines the namespaces...
In VB9, there's a bug when using XML literals with any type member that is a protected keyword. For example, given the following psuedo types, Class Doc Public Property [Imports]() As List( Of DocImports) End Class Class DocImports Public Property...