Orientation specifies the orientation in which the page is shown when the app is opened. The values that can be taken by it are “Portrait”, “PortraitUP”, “PortraitDown”, “Portrait”, “LandScapeLeft”...

One of the features added to datagrid in Silverlight 3 Beta is Validation. This can be done - Once we modify the content of a particular cell (cell validation) - Once we modify the content of a particular datagrid row (would like to commit changes...

In Silverlight 3, we can specify add sortdescriptions indatagrid so that these columns are sorted initially when the datagrid loads. This can done in XAML as well as in code. The following code snippets demonstrate this behavior. Specifying SortDescriptions...

Silverlight 3 Beta has got a very good response at Mix 09 conference. There have been some additions to datagrid since Silverlight 2 RTW. One of them is support for Grouping – developers can specify columns by which they want to group by. The Group...

In my previous post,the collection I used is a List. So, each time I add a new item to the list, the itemsource of the datagrid need to be modified/reset to reflect the latest changes to the collection. Using the ObservableCollection gets this functionality...

Silverlight 2.0 Datagrid ships with a very cool function known as ScrollIntoView. This function provides the functionality to bring into view (show) a particular row or column in the datagrid. I was playing with adding rows to the datagrid, and everytime...

Master Detail apps are one of the popular usages of a datagrid control. The datagrid that is shipped as part of Silverlight 2.0 RTW can be used for doing this. Coming from the client world (winforms), I wanted to try out creating a master-detail app using...

In this post, I describe how to create a WebService that returns a DataSet, deploying the web service, accessing the data from the webservice, and using it with winforms controls Part1 : WebService Creation Open VS Create new ASP.net...

First, we will see how to add a web service in VS2005, and then we will see what changed in VS2008 orcas. VS2005 In Visual 2005 (Whidbey), adding a Web Reference is pretty straight forward. From Project -> Add Web Reference ..., (From Solution...

In my previous blog, I talked about a new WindowsForms Control “ElementHost” to host WPF controls inside a WindowsForms Project. On the contrary, “ WindowsFormsHost ” is used to host winforms controls inside a WPF application. WindowsFormsHost is a very...

Crossbow aims to provide interoperability between windows forms and WPF. In my previous blog http://blogs.msdn.com/nagasatish/archive/2007/07/16/crossbow-interoperability-between-windows-forms-and-wpf.aspx , i talked about a windows forms control ElementHost...

Windows Forms is the the technology for developing client applications on the windows platform and has been in existance for quite some time. WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is the new technology for developing apps with Vista look and feel. These...

DLinq (.net Language Integrated Query for Relational Data) is an O/R mapping infrastructure that will help manipulating relational data as objects. It also does not compramise on the ability to query. I tried to dirty my hands playing a bit with it and...

Any windows forms developer might have come accross this error message while programming in Visual Studio 2005. "One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project...

One of the goals of a Tester is to find accurate bugs and also the reason for the occurance of the bug. By accurate bugs, what I mean is a bug that can be repro’ed. If the bug repo’s intermittently then try to establish a pattern for the occcurance of...

While answering questions on the windowsforms.net regarding datagridview, i noticed that a good number of people wanted to store the contents of the datagridview in a csv (comma separated value format). In this blog, i am just writing a simple solution...

When we are testing an application, we have to see the how the application behaves in various combinations of OS's, Platforms, etc. The following table gives demonstrates that we have to test our app for the following combinations 1...

I have been using Microsoft Word since the windows 3.0 in the 90's and I should admit that whenever I used a newer version of it, I was pleased about the new features added in each one of them. The main thing that I liked about Word for Windows is the...

Hi, My name is Naga Satish Rupenaguntla. I work in .Net Framework Client Team. In here, I will post my views about Windows Forms, Software Development, Products etc. Thanks for stopping by, Satish