July 2009 - Posts

Working with a Local Database File in Visual Studio
31 July 09 12:58 PM

In this post and video I’ve shown folks how to work with a local database file (.mdf, .mdb, .sdf) that resides directly inside your project in order to see updates made while debugging your application. If it looks like everything saves fine while debugging, Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: VS2005, VS2008, DevCenter, Data, VS2010

Visual Basic Power Packs also included with Visual Studio 2010
27 July 09 09:56 AM

If you’re like me and used to having line & shape controls , PrintForm and a handy DataRepeater as part of your toolbox then you’ll be excited to know that these controls are also going to be installed with Visual Studio 2010. On Friday, Yunfeng Dong Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2005, VS2008, Winforms, DevCenter, VS2010

WPF or Silverlight? Billy Hollis Shares His Thoughts on Channel 9
23 July 09 01:25 PM

One of my favorite Visual Basic MVP’s, Billy Hollis, was caught at TechEd by the Patterns&Practices folks for a quick chat. In this short 2-minute interview Billy shares his opinions on WPF and Silverlight. Check it out: Billy Hollis on WPF and Silverlight Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, Community, Silverlight, DevCenter, Channel9

Filtering Child DataTables Using TableAdapters
22 July 09 05:02 PM

Since my last post on filtering child collections using Entity Framework , I have had more than a few emails about how to load filtered child DataTables that are part of a master-detail relationship and then get them to save properly through the TableAdapters. Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Data

Channel 9 Interview: LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008
21 July 09 10:19 PM

Ever wonder what really happens when you write a simple LINQ query? Dim query = From row In db.Customers _ Where row.Country = "Canada" _ Select row A lot of new language features went into the compilers in Visual Studio 2008 to make even this Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 7 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Channel9

Filtering Entity Framework Collections in Master-Detail Forms
16 July 09 05:18 PM

Last post I talked about how to get WPF data binding to work with master-detail entity collections. I had a couple readers ask me how they could filter the child collection instead of bringing them all down so in this post I’d like to show how you could Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Entity Framework

Master-Detail Data Binding in WPF with Entity Framework
14 July 09 04:24 PM

Today I thought I would talk about a really common scenario in data applications, creating a master-details (one-to-many) data entry form. I’ve written about WPF data binding and Entity Framework a lot in the past: Posts: Master-Details with Entity Framework Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 12 Comments    

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

Visual Basic 10, C# 4 & Visual Studio 2010 Talk @ EastBay.NET
10 July 09 10:00 AM

On Wednesday I spoke at EastBay.NET User’s group at our new Livermore location and I have to say it was a TON of fun. I don’t think I’ve had this much fun speaking in a while. Deborah has an awesome recap of the event . We were afraid that we’d have low Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

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

Implementing Validation in WPF on Entity Framework Entities
07 July 09 05:14 PM

I’ve blogged before about implementing validation on LINQ to SQL classes as well as how to customize the display of error messages in WPF . In this post I want to show how you can use these same techniques to validate entities coming from the Entity Framework Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 13 Comments    

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

Look Who’s Blogging!
02 July 09 06:09 PM

I guess Robin and I inspired her on Monday when we had dinner together. Yes folks, Deborah Kurata (VB MVP) is finally spilling her technical heart out on her new blog ! Time to update your RSS readers…. Deborah's Developer MindScape Neat-o title too. Read More...

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Filed under: Community, DevCenter

New “How Do I” Video Series Released
01 July 09 05:28 PM

I just released 3 new videos onto the VB Dev Center starting a new series on how to do WPF data binding with Entity Framework using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This is a “no frills” WPF series that focuses on data so you won’t see any other tools Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 7 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Videos, DevCenter, Entity Framework