Visual Studio Data

If you’ve been using Data Source Configuration Wizard since Visual Studio 2005, you’ll notice that with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 , there’s a “small” change – on Choose Your Database Objects page, a new checkbox would allow you to “enable local...

If you have an identity primary key column defined in a database table, its value will be automatically set by the database engine when you insert a new row to the table. The identity value is determined by the column’s Identity Seed and Identity Increment...

In the MSDN Visual Basic Power Packs forum , I had an embarrassing reply on a DataRepeater event handling question, in which the user asked why his event handling code did not work. Here is the original question: “I want to be able to resize a textbox...

Hierarchical update is an important feature of typed dataset that refers to the process of saving updated data back to a database while maintaining referential integrity rules. This feature is enhanced in Visual Studio 2008 by introducing a TableAdapterManger...