Most of the time, your business application needs to deal with data stored in a database. Sometimes the database is on a remote server, while sometimes it is a local database file (SQL Server Compact database file, SQL Server Express database file, or...

Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio What is Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio? The multi-targeting feature of Visual Studio lets you specify the version of the .NET Framework, or its profile, that is required for your application. For example...

After Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 was released to the web, we got a lot of questions and feedbacks from Visual Basic Power Packs MSDN forum .   So when Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was about to release, we decided to ship  Visual...

Yesterday our Shanghai Office witnessed the longest total solar eclipse of 21st century! The eclipse happened from 9:36AM to 9:40AM. The whole city was immersed into absolute dark in just a minute! We’re so lucky to experience this, unfortunately it was...

As you may notice the Visual Studio Data (vsdata) blog is evolving.  It is great to see more blogs come out from this team (special thanks to our driver PMs: Beth and Yang) and more bloggers, especially developers and testers, contributing to the...

Drag-and-drop data binding helps you build business applications very easily, however sometimes you still need to customize the layout or format after data binding is set. For example, I built a simple application to display all the Customers, and for...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 provides a great feature called “Navigate To”. You can find this feature under the “Edit” menu or use the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl + COMMA” to bring up the “Navigate To” dialog. This feature provides search-as-you-type support...