January 2009 - Posts

Education Day: Creating WPF Line of Business Applications
27 January 09 12:54 PM

Bay.NET is organizing an Education Day in Cupertino this Saturday the 31st which you should check out if you live in the SF Bay Area. This is an awesome opportunity to learn WPF and the M-V-VM pattern from the experts Karl Shifflett and Jamie Rodriguez Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Community, DevCenter

ADO.NET Data Services - Building an Excel Client
22 January 09 10:46 PM

Last few posts I've been building a WPF client against ADO.NET Data Services, if you missed them: Using ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Data Services - Building a WPF Client ADO.NET Data Services - Enforcing FK Associations and a Fix for Deleting Entities Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 13 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, Article, Office, N-tier, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO

ADO.NET Data Services - Intercepting Queries and Adding Validation
21 January 09 08:53 PM

Last few posts I've been building a WPF client against ADO.NET Data Services, if you missed them: Using ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Data Services - Building a WPF Client ADO.NET Data Services - Enforcing FK Associations and a Fix for Deleting Entities Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, LINQ, DevCenter, Article, Data, N-tier, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services

ADO.NET Data Services - Enforcing FK Associations and a Fix for Deleting Entities
20 January 09 07:15 PM

Last post I described one way to build a smart client in WPF against ADO.NET Data Services. In this example we are editing the products table and associating them to categories in the categories table from Northwind. In the Northwind database the CategoryID Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 17 Comments    

Filed under: DevCenter, Article, Data, N-tier, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services

ADO.NET Data Services - Building a WPF Client
15 January 09 08:30 PM

In my last post I introduced ADO.NET Data Services and how you can easily expose your data model via RESTful services that support the basic CRUD (Create,Retrieve,Update,Delete) operations. Basic CRUD database operations map well to the familiar HTTP Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Data, N-tier, ADO.NET Data Services

Using ADO.NET Data Services
09 January 09 07:52 PM

This week I worked through a good article on getting started with ADO.NET Data Services (a.k.a Astoria) called Using ADO.NET Data Services . If you're not familiar with the technology it's basically a framework for exposing your data models via RESTful Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 31 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, Article, Data, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services

WPF Drag-Drop Data Binding on dnrTV & WPF Business App Resources
07 January 09 03:03 PM

I'm still catching up from holiday vacation so I just watched my dnrTV episode today that I filmed with Carl when I saw him at DevTeach in Montreal last month. I always enjoy interviewing with Carl. He has a way of making you feel comfortable and making Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Community, Videos, DevCenter, VS2010

New WPF "How Do I" Video on Formatting Data Entry
06 January 09 11:18 AM

We just released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry forms using the IValueConverter like I showed in a previous post . The IValueConverter allows you full control over the display of the data as well as Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, VS2008, Videos, Data

New Year's Resolution from MSDN Magazine
05 January 09 02:18 PM

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday like I did. My family went on a cruise down the west coast of Mexico and it was awesome. I'm still wading through all my email ;-) It was so much fun to be on a ship for New Year's Eve celebrations Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter