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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
Using the ReportViewer with ADO.NET Data Services and Entity Framework 19 August 09 09:57 PM: The Winforms ReportViewer in Visual Studio Pro will allow you define client reports with a variety of data sources. If you’re not familiar with creating client-side reports using the ReportViewer, take a look at these videos: How Do I: Create a report Read More...
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Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, Reporting
Auto Access to non-Indexed Collections : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the VB Compiler 14 August 09 04:26 PM: I just finished a couple more How Do I videos on using EF with WPF using VS2008 SP1 (they’ll be published soon) and while I was translating my VB code to C# I stumbled upon an error in C# that does not happen in VB. This of course got me curious and so Read More...
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N-Tier Application Patterns with Entity Framework 05 August 09 03:20 PM: This month’s MSDN Magazine has a particularly good article in there by Danny Simmons , Development Manager on the Entity Framework team, on N-Tier Application Patterns with Entity Framework that I recommend reading through. He explains the design Read More...
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Filed under: Data, N-tier, Entity Framework, VS2010
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...
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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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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...
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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...
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WPF Data Binding Samples on Code Gallery 17 June 09 12:41 PM: One of the many samples released for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that you should be aware of are examples of WPF data binding against Entity Data Models. You can find some easy to follow samples here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WPFDatabinding This sample 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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Programming Entity Framework Book 17 February 09 06:11 PM: Julie Lerman's Programming Entity Framework book just arrived today! I've been skimming around it all day and so far Chapter 8 is my favorite but I'm sure once I get to Chapter 14 that will take the cake :-) Thanks Julie! (especially for all the great 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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Filed under: VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Data, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, 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...
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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, LINQ, DevCenter, Article, Data, N-tier, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services

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