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Build WPF Data Controls for Outlook Addins Easily with VS2010
21 December 09 02:14 PM
Last post I showed how to migrate our Northwind Outlook client to .NET 4 and Office 2010 . This Outlook Add-in displays order history information in an adjoining form region so sales associates can see that data immediately when communicating with customers. Read More...
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Building Occasionally Connected Smart Clients with WPF
02 November 09 02:57 PM
This month Dev Pro Connections has an article by Milind Lele on using Sync Services in a WPF application: Building Occasionally Connected Smart Clients with WPF With Sync Services and Visual Studio 2008 you can visually design your local data cache and Read More...
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Inserting Master-Detail Data into a SQL-Server Compact Edition Database
15 September 09 07:11 PM
Yesterday John posted on the Visual Studio Data blog how to Refresh the Primary Key Identity Column during an Insert Operation using SQL Server. In that post he shows how the DataSet designer sets up a batch Insert statement to retrieve identity keys Read More...
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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...
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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...
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Using TableAdapters to Insert Related Data into an MS Access Database
14 May 09 05:48 PM
I’ve posted before about how to use TableAdapters to update parent-child (master-detail) relationships against SQL server. It’s pretty straightforward and Visual Studio generates all the code for you to properly insert, update and delete your data. However Read More...
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Using the WPF ObservableCollection with EF Entities
08 May 09 03:29 PM
The ObservableCollection is a special WPF collection that provides proper notifications to the UI when items are added, removed, or the list is refreshed because it implements INotifyCollectionChanged . It’s common to use this collection (or inherit from Read More...
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Notifying the UI when Entity References Change in Lookup Comboboxes
04 May 09 07:51 PM
Last week I wrote about how to data bind WPF lookup comboboxes to entities returned from the Entity Framework. I described that the key to this type of binding is setting the SelectedItem to the object reference itself on the navigation property instead Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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