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New Community Article - Using Business Objects with WCF
02 November 07 12:00 PM
There's a new article up on the VB Dev Center by Rob Windsor , a follow up from his first Getting Started with WCF article, called Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation . Rob explains how to serialize your own custom business Read More...
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Using Data Across Multiple Windows Forms
01 October 07 11:11 AM
Recently I've had more than a few questions about how to handle working with data across multiple forms. If you've watched my Forms over Data video series you know how to create a database , connect to it , save your data properly , and work with data Read More...
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Attachment(s):MultiFormSample.zip
Binding Multiple Combo Boxes to the Same Data Source
19 September 07 11:03 AM
Recently the VB Team received a customer bug submitted through Connect that had to do with binding multiple combo boxes to the same data source. The customer was reporting that once a selection was made in one combo, the other combos were also changing. Read More...
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Converting VS 2005 Projects to VS 2008 - Enabling LINQ
21 August 07 02:36 PM
So you have an application you've written in Visual Studio 2005 and you want to dig in, convert this baby, and start using LINQ in Visual Studio 2008. In this post I'm going to outline what steps are involved to get LINQ working based on what providers Read More...
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An Example of Dynamic Programming in VB
17 July 07 07:26 PM
I've been asked by more than a few people in the community for an example of dynamic programming using Visual Basic. Most people understand the benefits of dynamic programming but are still unsure of the implementation details in VB. But for those readers Read More...
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TableAdapters and Transactions
11 July 07 02:34 PM
In my last post I showed you how to save related parent-child DataTables in proper update, insert and delete order by controlling how the TableAdapters saved the rows. In this next post I'll demonstrate how we can do this inside a database transaction. Read More...
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Attachment(s):NorthwindTransaction.zip
Working with TableAdapters and Related DataTables
10 July 07 02:28 PM
This past couple weeks I've been asked to help out a few people in the community work through a couple snags they were having with respect to the TableAdapters and how they should work in a multi-user application when updating related parent-child tables. Read More...
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Debugging Hybrid VB6/.NET Applications
03 July 07 05:11 PM
To wrap up this series of posts on hybrid applications with the Interop Forms Toolkit , I'd like to talk about debugging. There's a couple ways we can go about debugging with VB6 and Visual Studio and depending on where you're spending most of your coding Read More...
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Deploying Interop UserControls with RegFree-COM
27 June 07 08:12 PM
One of the features of the latest Interop Forms Toolkit is the ability to develop UserControls in addition to Windows Forms. In a previous post , I showed how to create a simple Interop UserControl. I also have a video here on creating them , and one Read More...
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Interop Forms Toolkit - Your New Best Friend
13 June 07 07:41 PM
I've been heads down this week (re)learning an older technology -- Visual Basic 6! With all the things to focus on like this , this and this you're probably asking "Um, Beth, WHY!?". It's because I've really been learning the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 Read More...
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Building a Secure Login Form (Parameterized Queries Part 2)
06 June 07 10:48 PM
In my first post on parameterized queries I built a simple login form that really was a contrived example meant to showcase how to use the TableAdapter Configuration Wizard to configure a parameterized query. However, since I opened myself up here, I Read More...
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Attachment(s):LoginClient.zip
Many-to-Many Data Binding
30 May 07 11:25 AM
In my Forms over Data videos series I show you how to create a one-to-many data entry form in video #3. Recently, I've had a few people ask how to create a form that displays a many-to-many relationship so I thought I'd post on how to do that today. You Read More...
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Working with a Local Data File in VS
29 May 07 05:23 PM
Visual Studio 2005 made some big improvements in the way applications work with data, from BindingSources to the Data Sources Window all the way to a free version of SQL-Server called SQL-Server Express . I've had a few customers get stuck on using SQL-Server Read More...
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Creating a Parameterized Query
25 May 07 01:23 PM
I've been asked by a couple readers on how to pass parameters into a SQL statement to your database using the TableAdapters. I actually created a video on how to do this in the context of a search query ( play video | download video | entire series ). Read More...
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Reading from a Serial Port and Saving to a Database
05 May 07 09:14 AM
Recently I was sent a question about how to read from a serial port and save the information to a database so instead of following up privately I thought I'd post my answer here. There's a good article in the MSDN Library that has some hints on how to Read More...
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