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Good Times at DevTeach, Vancouver
19 June 09 05:24 PM
Last week I spoke at DevTeach in Vancouver which was held at the beautiful Four Seasons in downtown. I love this Canadian conference because the attendees are great – super friendly and social, and ask a lot of great questions. I mostly interacted with 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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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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dnrTV: More Fun with Office and XML Literals
20 April 09 12:33 PM
Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly. This is a follow up from the last show where I went over the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML in order to manipulate and query Office documents. Last show focused on CustomXML parts and Word content 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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Community Article: Scaling ADO.NET DataTables
17 December 08 12:43 PM
We just released a new community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by one of our MVPs, Jeff Certain , called Scaling ADO.NET DataTables . In this article Jeff shows shows us how to query and aggregate data using the built in DataTable methods Read More...
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I'm Speaking at Silicon Valley Code Camp on Saturday Nov. 8th
05 November 08 12:33 PM
There are over 1100 people registered for the Silicon Valley code camp this year! Wow! That's a couple hundred more than last year. This is a free event people, so there's no excuse not to come out to Foothill college this year. And it's not all Microsoft Read More...
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Editing Data from Two Tables in a Single DataGridView
15 October 08 06:31 PM
I've had a lot of questions lately on how to display data from two separate tables in the database into a single DataGridView for editing. It sure would be nice if all our data was in a single table, but in reality most of the time it's not. Basically Read More...
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SDN Conference Day 2
08 October 08 03:04 AM
Today I woke up at the crack of dawn because I had an 8:30 AM session. Okay maybe not quite the crack, but for me it was early . Especially after a night of socializing. That's a really cool thing about conferences here, the attendees love to go out with Read More...
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First Day at SDN Conference
07 October 08 03:28 AM
I'm here in the Netherlands in a town called Noordwijkerhout near Amsterdam at the SDN Conference with a lot of great speakers and sessions . I took these shots while the attendees were in session. There's good food, great vendors and lots of entertainment Read More...
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MSDN Magazine - Dynamic Data Entry With XML Literals
01 October 08 06:49 PM
Check out the latest news on the VB Dev Center . I'm finally headlining myself ;-) I'm in the October issue of MSDN Magazine . I've been managing the content for the Basic Instincts column for a little over a year now where we rotate writers from the Read More...
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Data on the Smart Client Talk at Bay.NET UG
21 August 08 01:48 PM
Last night I spoke to SF Bay.NET user's group on Data Binding in Winforms and WPF, focusing on Line-of-Business (LOB) application scenarios. I showed how you can use the same data sources with Winforms and WPF, walking through binding scenarios with DataSets, Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
15 August 08 12:18 PM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao , a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element Read More...
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Accessing Open XML Document Parts with the Open XML SDK
30 July 08 07:30 PM
About a month ago the Open XML SDK 1.0 (June 08 update) was released . The SDK provides strongly typed document part access to Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 documents. The SDK has been a CTP for a while, but last month version 1.0 was finally Read More...
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