Visual Studio 2010 Localized Code Samples for all Visual Studio supported languages are now available on the Web! You can find the samples by clicking on Help -> Samples menu directly from within Visual Studio 2010. And then click on Visual Studio...

Visual Studio 2010 supports data connections to SQL Azure , query designing, data manipulation, and data binding operations in your C#/VB applications. Connecting to a SQL Azure Database SQL Azure can be viewed as a subset of SQL Server 2008. Therefore...

Here comes our third blog in BDC serials Walkthrough of creating association between Sharepoint BDC entities using Visual Studio 2010 . This time we will show how to create Association between Sharepoint BDC entities using Visual Studio 2010 and use Business...

Please read on this blog post if you want to deploy a BDC model to the desired SharePoint BCS service or if you ever run into issues like below... "When deploying a BDC model in Visual Studio 2010, some people may see this error message “…...

Class Designer PowerToys for Visual Studio 2010 is released today! It provides a bunch of enhancements to Visual Studio 2010 Class Designer. Click here to download it now. It has many cool features like pan/zoom window, floating properties window,...

Using Stored Procedures to Convert Database Data When building WPF database applications, you might not want to display the raw data retrieved from data tables directly. Instead, you want to convert the raw data to make it more meaningful to display....

Introduction   In the WCF RIA Services PDC release, Live IntelliSense was first introduced to enable no-build experience for RIA Services development.   More information about this feature can be found in: Live IntelliSense in WCF RIA Services...

In this blog, I will show you three approaches to do data validation in Silverlight. Sample Scenario: Let's say I have a UI for users to enter their registration information for my website. When user input the email address in the UI below, I want to...

This is the final release for Silverlight 4 Tools for VS2010, WCF RIA Services 1.0 runtime and tools. A bunch of new features were   introduced into this release, . Let’s take the Data Source Window (used   for data-binding UI generation) outputs...

When writing data applications, one of the things we need to take care is the difference between the data stored in the database and the data you want to show to the user in presentation layer. We need to make sure that the data being displayed in the...

Recently, we found a bug that hidden in the WCF RIA Services RC release setup authoring, which causes the Data Source Window cannot populate RIA Services Domain Context objects, and the Live IntelliSense doesn’t work. This only happens when the VS2010...

Recently we published a blog Walkthrough of enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010 . This walkthrough shows you how to pull data from an external database into an external list and enable Create, Read, Update and Delete...

One question being asked about DataRepeater in the MSDN forum is that how to print all the populated records from DataRepeater. If the number of the records is small enough to fit into the view of the DataRepeater, this would be a very simple task: use...

The Shape control in Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks provides several useful events, including MouseDown, MouseMove, MouseUp. Some useful actions you can work on a shape is to use the mouse to move or resize the shape. For example, you may want to drag...

Visual Studio 2010 provides drag-and-drop data binding from the Data Sources window in Silverlight applications. The Data Sources window simplifies the process of creating data-bound controls to present application data to users. This example shows how...

About six months ago, Milind wrote a post about how to leverage the Data Source Window to build look-up binding. In that article, Milind briefly described one way to do that through drag-and-drop. In this post, I’ll show you different ways to use the...

Based on customer requests, we have decided to release the data connection dialog source code on Code Gallery last weekend: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Connection/ Here, I’ll introduce it briefly to give a basic idea. The data connection dialog is...

As posted in our previous articles, Visual Studio 2010 offers “Drag and Drop Data Binding” for WPF and Silverlight Applications. Using this feature, you can create data-bound controls by dragging items from the Data Source Window to the WPF or Silverlight...

While answering questions in the forums , I came across a recurring question about how the Virtual Mode works with the DataRepeater control included in the Visual Basic Power Packs. I realized that not many people use this powerful feature so I’d like...

Many of you have been asking about this and here is the good news: VB PowerPacks has been released in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 ( Download ) and will be part of VS2010 RTM! It was also released in VS 2008 Service Pack 1, but if you’re still working on...

If you want to manage business data in SharePoint 2010 Beta, you can use VisualStudio 2010 Beta to do that. For details, you can read this blog Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Visual Studio 2010 Beta . I copied some paragraphs...

Today, we finished the work to upgrade SDK samples for WCF Service Consumption Tools to VS SDK 2010 beta2 release. There are 3 samples included in this resource, each containing both Visual Basic and C# projects. 1. AsrDiscoverButton -- Extending the...

Live IntelliSense is one of the new features added into WCF RIA Services PDC release on VS2010. It enables no-build experience to get IntelliSense support on the client project for business objects defined in the server project. As we know, IntelliSense...

WCF RIA Services Beta was announced at PDC09 one week ago. It contains a lot of runtime support to make the experience of building a web business application much easier using Silverlight. Besides, there are also some tooling supports to help developers...

With the SharePoint 2010 Beta came out of the door, one of the exciting news is that it allows developers to access SharePoint List Data using ADO.Net Data Service 1.5 . If you are familiar with Data Service Client programming mode (we have already posted...