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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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Filed under: VS2008, SQL Server, DevCenter, Article, Data

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

New “How Do I” Videos Released on Entity Framework & WPF
26 August 09 10:18 AM

Yesterday we released a couple more videos onto the Visual Basic Developer Center on building WPF data-entry forms with Entity Framework: How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF using Entity Framework? How Do I: Build a WPF Master-Detail Data Read More...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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...

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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...

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

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

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...

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Filed under: WPF, VS2008, Videos, Data

New WPF How Do I Videos Released!
03 November 08 10:50 AM

I posted two more WPF "Forms over Data" videos onto the Developer Center that you should check out. How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF? - learn how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008 Service Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, Videos, Data