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Silicon Valley Code Camp Oct. 3-4 : Schedule is up!
28 September 09 12:37 PM

As I mentioned before , I’ll be speaking this weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp ( http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/ ). This is a FREE event at at Foothill College and it’s not just Microsoft technologies. A lot of great speakers will be there too. Read More...

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Filed under: Speaking, LINQ, Community, DevCenter, XML, VS2010

Merging Text & Photos into a Word Document using Open XML SDK
24 September 09 02:55 PM

Yesterday I posted about how we could create a letter generator (mail merge) that took data from a database to create a Word 2007 document using the System.IO.Packaging class. I showed how to take data from Northwind using a single LINQ query to create Read More...

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Filed under: LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, VSTO

Mail Merging Into a Single Word Document Using XML Literals
23 September 09 04:18 PM

With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 we can work with a much simpler, standard, XML format called Open XML which opens the door for many types of applications that cannot work via COM. What if you needed to build a scalable web service that processes Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office

DevProConnections Article: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007
17 August 09 10:05 AM

This month I have an article on DevProConnections: Taking Advantage of LINQ and XML in Microsoft Office 2007 In this article, I talk about how a lot of applications that need to take advantage of Microsoft Office can do so without going through COM. Many Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office

Channel 9 Interview: LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008
21 July 09 10:19 PM

Ever wonder what really happens when you write a simple LINQ query? Dim query = From row In db.Customers _ Where row.Country = "Canada" _ Select row A lot of new language features went into the compilers in Visual Studio 2008 to make even this Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Channel9

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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Filed under: WPF, LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, Entity Framework

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, XML, VS2010

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

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

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

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Videos, DevCenter, XML, VSTO

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

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, Community, Article, Data

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Office

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, SQL Server, Winforms, DevCenter, Article, Data, Entity Framework