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Conquering XML with LINQ in Visual Basic 9.0

Posted by Beth Massi on Apr 23, 2008 10:45 AM

Community
.NET
Topics
XML Databinding
Tags
QCon San Francisco 2007,
LINQ,
Language Features,
Visual Basic.NET,
QCon
Summary
In Visual Basic 9.0, XML becomes a built-in data type with a rich editing experience that completely eliminates the conceptual barrier between the code that you write and the XML that you're trying to express. It will cover tips, tricks, and gotchas so that developers reach peak performance when programming against XML with LINQ in Visual Basic 9.0.

Bio
Beth Massi is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the VS Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN and her blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi ).

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Nice by Ali M. Posted Apr 24, 2008 3:26 PM
beautiful girl by richard qiao Posted Apr 25, 2008 4:56 PM
download-ability by Ali M. Posted Apr 26, 2008 4:11 AM
Nice by mehmet karabulut Posted May 10, 2008 6:25 PM
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    Nice

    Apr 24, 2008 3:26 PM by Ali M.

    Nice presentation. Good work

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    beautiful girl

    Apr 25, 2008 4:56 PM by richard qiao

    i can't focus on her saying other than her face

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    download-ability

    Apr 26, 2008 4:11 AM by Ali M.

    I really wish if those presentations where available for download + their slides Their 1. long, rarely i complete any in just one sitting 2. they interresting enough that i wonna keep them on my hard disk for later rerun so the people at infoq please consider adding this optio

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    Nice

    May 10, 2008 6:25 PM by mehmet karabulut

    Nice presentation. Good work programlar

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