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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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Editing Tabular Data in WPF - Building a WPF Grid
15 September 08 07:12 PM
In my last post on WPF I showed how you could use a Winforms DataGridView on a WPF form in order to edit data in a tabular style. Today I'll show you how you can customize the WPF ListView in order to edit data without having to use any Winforms controls Read More...
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What's New in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - Client and Data Features
11 September 08 12:51 PM
Last night I spoke at East Bay.NET UG on some of the new features in Visual Studio Service Pack 1 focusing on client and data. I did a whirlwind tour of new SQL 2008 data types and Sync Services enhancements , ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Read More...
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Editing Tabular Data in WPF Using the Winforms DataGridView
04 September 08 04:09 PM
A pretty common requirement of any business application is to be able to edit data in a "spreadsheet" or tabular style. Usually we use some sort of data grid to do this. When building WPF applications in Visual Studio 2008 you'll notice right away that Read More...
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Better Data Editing Features in WPF with SP1
19 August 08 08:09 PM
One of the things I was really missing from WPF when I started to dig into data binding was feature consistency between the BindingListCollectionView and the Winforms BindingSource I had grown to love. The BindingListCollectionView provides the navigation, Read More...
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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 3 Database Transactions
16 April 08 12:03 PM
In my previous posts this week I showed how to build a simple distributed application with a Windows client, a WCF hosted middle-tier and a data access layer that used LINQ to SQL: LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier LINQ Read More...
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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 2 Building the Client
14 April 08 11:03 AM
In my last post we built the service and data access layer for our LINQ to SQL N-Tier application. In this post we'll walk through building a very simple Windows client form that works with our middle-tier. Adding the Service Reference Now that we have Read More...
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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier
12 April 08 09:01 AM
In my previous posts on LINQ to SQL I showed how to build LINQ to SQL classes and set up the data binding in your Windows applications. If you missed them: Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL One-To-Many Read More...
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Simple Validation with LINQ to SQL Classes
25 February 08 05:04 PM
In the last few posts on LINQ to SQL I've showed how to set up an object model using the O/R designer and how to handle a couple data binding scenarios with Comboboxes here and here . Last post on this topic we implemented a one-to-many data entry form Read More...
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One-To-Many (Master-Detail) Forms with LINQ to SQL
19 February 08 03:11 PM
In previous posts this month I showed how to use LINQ to SQL classes with a couple different Combobox data binding scenarios. (You can read those articles here and here .) Today I'm going to show you how to create a one-to-many data entry form (and we'll Read More...
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Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL
07 February 08 09:00 AM
In yesterday's post I showed you how to bind LINQ to SQL classes to a Combobox in order to filter records on a one-to-many form. Today I want to show you how how you can use a Combobox as a lookup list in order to edit values on a record. We'll be building Read More...
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Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL
06 February 08 02:07 PM
In a previous post I showed how to set up related data binding using ComboBoxes against DataSets and a loyal reader asked how this would be done using LINQ and Visual Studio 2008. I assume he meant LINQ to SQL in this case, because remember LINQ can be Read More...
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The New TableAdapterManager in Visual Studio 2008
07 January 08 07:41 PM
In my previous post on TableAdapters and Transactions I showed a couple techniques on how to perform hierarchical updates inside a transaction when you have multiple related DataTables in your DataSet. The example I gave here shows how to use database Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview - LINQ to SQL and the O/R Designer in VS 2008
27 August 07 04:03 PM
I just posted another great interview on Channel 9 with Young Joo talking about LINQ to SQL and the new O/R Designer in Visual Studio 2008. He demos a typical business client-server scenario and shows how LINQ to SQL classes make it much easier to work Read More...
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LINQ to SQL Videos from the Community
20 August 07 01:43 PM
Bill Burrows has done it again and created a series of videos to help get you started with LINQ to SQL in Visual Basic! Bill is a great teacher and the style of these videos is off-the-cuff so that you really feel like you are in a classroom learning Read More...
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