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OBA Part 3 - Storing and Reading Data in Word Documents
12 February 09 05:55 PM

In my last few 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 In this post I'm Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, Data, ADO.NET Data Services, SharePoint, OBA

OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data
03 February 09 02:23 PM

Last post I talked about the high-level architecture of our O ffice B usiness A pplication for the new Northwind Traders. There are a lot of different architecture options to consider when building an OBA. OBA is all about using Microsoft Office with Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 11 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Data, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, OBA

Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8
02 February 09 07:09 PM

The last week I've been working with a couple teammates on an Office Business Application (OBA) demonstration we wanted to put together for TechReady 8. TechReady is an internal conference we deliver to the field employees. It's my first one and so far Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 18 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, DevCenter, Office, Data, ADO.NET Data Services, VS2010, VSTO, SharePoint, OBA

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...

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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...

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