Emad Ibrahim

Improve LINQ Query Performance

I was writing a small utility for Outlook 2007 and was using LINQ to query Outlook Tasks.  This query was nested within another query.  While debugging, I realized that looping though the query results in my For Each loop was taking too long. If you have read anything about LINQ, I am sure you already know [...]

Get Tasks in Outlook 2007 with VB.NET

You can retrieve the list of tasks in your Outlook 2007 using the following code Dim ns As Outlook.NameSpaceDim tasks As Outlook.Itemsns = Application.GetNamespace(“MAPI”)tasks = ns.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderTasks).Items Dim task As ObjectFor Each task In tasks    ‘ iterate through the tasks hereNext Related PostsSynchronize Outlook Tasks with Remember the MilkOutlook 2007 is by far the best integrated solution for organizing [...]

Fame, Fortune and WCF

I need your help to bring me fame and fortune. I wrote an article at code project which was entered for a competition.  The winner gets $10k.  Can you please check it out at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/myfeedreader.aspx and if you like it, please vote for it.  I can’t win if you don’t vote.  Voting will be closed on [...]

VB9 – LINQ and Extension Methods in Action

Here is the scenario, I have collection of books and I want to get a book with a specific ISBN.  In the old ways, you will probably have to create a custom collection and inherit a generic collection of books, then add a method to get by ISBN. Thanks to LINQ and extension methods, you can [...]

Calling the WordPress XMLRPC API from VB.net

As an example, I will call the getCategories API method. Add a reference to the XML-RPC.net library. Create a struct for the return result Public Structure category Public categoryId As Object Public parentId As Object Public description As Object Public categoryName As Object [...]