April 2009 - Posts

Data Binding WPF Lookup Combobox Values to EF Entities
30 April 09 07:57 AM

It’s extremely common to have to hook up lookup tables on your data entry forms in order to populate foreign keys in a database. I’ve talked about how to do this in Winforms and WPF with Datasets and LINQ to SQL before: How Do I: Create a Lookup Combobox Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Data, Entity Framework

Visual Basic 2010 Preview on CodeCast with Lisa Feigenbaum
29 April 09 08:39 AM

Codecast is a short (~25min) podcast by Ken Levy who runs around Microsoft grabbing interviews with folks. In this episode Lisa talks about what Visual Basic developers can expect from the Visual Studio 2010 editor and IDE and other cool new features Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, DevCenter, VS2010, Podcast

Getting a Count of Unread Email in Outlook
28 April 09 09:02 AM

Last post I was talking about DataSets and aggregating data with LINQ and the example I gave was around finding rows of data where the Status = “Unread”. This got me thinking about how we could do this by asking Outlook for my unread email count – one Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, DevCenter, Office, VSTO

Tally Rows in a DataSet that Match a Condition
27 April 09 07:24 PM

Today I got a question that comes up often in data application programming about how to count rows in a DataSet that matched a condition. The DataSet may be bound to a DataGridView or other list control and it’s tempting to start looking at the control Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 8 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, Winforms, DevCenter, Article, Data

Visual Basic Start Page News Channel in Visual Studio
27 April 09 09:39 AM

I’ve had a couple questions lately on how to change the Visual Studio start page news feed so I thought I’d write a quick post on how to do it. When you open Visual Studio for the first time it will ask you what development environment setting it should Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, VS2008, DevCenter

Another Techie Podcast to Check Out: Sod This
22 April 09 02:12 PM

Oliver Sturm and Gary Short have recently started a new podcast called Sod This: http://www.sodthis.com . I met Oliver at SDC in the Netherlands last Fall and he is a really funny dude who loves to drink beer like me so naturally we clicked. ;-) I’m listening Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Community, Podcast

OBA Part 5 - Building the SharePoint 2007 Workflow
21 April 09 10:06 PM

In my last few app building posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them: OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data OBA Part 2 - Building and Outlook Client against LOB Data OBA Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Office, Workflow, ADO.NET Data Services, VSTO, SharePoint, OBA

dnrTV: More Fun with Office and XML Literals
20 April 09 12:33 PM

Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly. This is a follow up from the last show where I went over the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML in order to manipulate and query Office documents. Last show focused on CustomXML parts and Word content Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Videos, DevCenter, XML, VSTO

Channel 9 Interview: Re-signing ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE
08 April 09 08:22 AM

I just posted another interview on Channel 9 . I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the Office Client team , who is responsible for the ClickOnce publishing functionality in Visual Studio. We chat about trust issues and certificates Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, ClickOnce, DevCenter, Channel9, VSTO

dnrTV: Showing off the Open XML SDK and LINQ
07 April 09 03:05 PM

Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly . This time I’m talking about the Open XML SDK , something that I’ve written and spoken about many times . In this episode I show how to use Word 2007 content controls and map them to custom XML Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, XML, Office, VSTO

Let's GO OAKLAND!
06 April 09 01:24 PM

It's my favorite time of year -- it's warm, days are long, and baseball season is here! Tonight is the season opener for my favorite team in the whole world, the Oakland A's . They're down in L.A. (ahem, I mean Anaheim) playing the Los Angeles Angels Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Personal

"WPF for LOB" Training Tour
06 April 09 11:49 AM

In January I had the pleasure of attending Karl and Jamie's "WPF for line-of-business applications" training down in the Silicon Valley. Well I'm very excited to see that they are both heading on a training tour to hit some more major cities Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Community, DevCenter