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Building Occasionally Connected Smart Clients with WPF
02 November 09 02:57 PM

This month Dev Pro Connections has an article by Milind Lele on using Sync Services in a WPF application: Building Occasionally Connected Smart Clients with WPF With Sync Services and Visual Studio 2008 you can visually design your local data cache and Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, SQL Server, DevCenter, Article, Data

Inserting Master-Detail Data into a SQL-Server Compact Edition Database
15 September 09 07:11 PM

Yesterday John posted on the Visual Studio Data blog how to Refresh the Primary Key Identity Column during an Insert Operation using SQL Server. In that post he shows how the DataSet designer sets up a batch Insert statement to retrieve identity keys Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, SQL Server, DevCenter, Article, Data

“Moving in” to Windows 7: My Favorite Features & Some Tips on Setup
01 September 09 05:22 PM

Last week I installed Windows 7 Enterprise on my main laptop – a Lenovo T60p ThinkPad. I was up in Redmond and MSIT made it available via a super-easy network boot that installs Office Enterprise, all the IT-required software like anti-virus, and all Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, SQL Server, DevCenter, Article, Windows 7

Enabling Remote SQL Express 2008 Network Connections on Vista
17 September 08 07:30 PM

Today I spent way too long trying to enable remote network connections on my SQL 2008 Express database running on my Vista development machine so I thought I'd post the steps here. Please note that these settings may NOT be appropriate for your production Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, SQL Server, DevCenter, Article, Data

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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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Speaking, VS2008, Community, SQL Server, ClickOnce, DevCenter, Office, Data, Entity Framework

Channel 9 Interview: SQL 2008 & Occasionally Connected Client Support in Visual Studio SP1
08 August 08 05:12 PM

I just posted a new Channel 9 interview with Milind Lele, a PM on the VS Pro Tools team. In this interview Milind shows us the improvements made to the tooling in Visual Studio SP1 for occasionally connected clients as well as the new data type support Read More...

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Filed under: VS2008, Community, SQL Server, Channel9