My article for MSDN Online is up at here on managing a music collection with Visual Basic Express and SQL Server Express Beta 1.
FYI, I used earlier builds than Beta 1 to write it but the code was run against Beta 1 (hence the dely in posting).
It's not complete yet so ideas are welcome. And yes, you need to install the included DirectX Managed Runtime interfaces to get things to run/compile.
Remember it's a sample built on pre-release software. :-D
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