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Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010
15 December 09 11:12 PM
Early this year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the Office and SharePoint platform using Visual Studio 2008 and Office & SharePoint 2007. If you missed them: Architecture of the Northwind Office Business Read More...
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Interop Between VBA and Visual Studio Office Solutions (VSTO)
05 November 09 09:03 PM
Couple weeks ago when I was in Holland speaking at SDC an attendee asked me how he could call methods in an Office solution (VSTO) from VBA functions defined in a document and vice versa. I thought I’d follow up with a post on how to do this, but first Read More...
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Basic Instincts MSDN Magazine Article: Collection and Array Initializers in Visual Basic 2010
08 October 09 11:33 AM
I’ve written before about the new array and collection initializer support in Visual Basic 2010. In this month’s MSDN Magazine, Spotty shows us how this new syntax in Visual Basic will make you more productive when writing code. Collection and Array Initializers Read More...
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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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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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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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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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Filtering Child DataTables Using TableAdapters
22 July 09 05:02 PM
Since my last post on filtering child collections using Entity Framework , I have had more than a few emails about how to load filtered child DataTables that are part of a master-detail relationship and then get them to save properly through the TableAdapters. 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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Community Article: Getting Started with .NET RIA Services
30 June 09 12:44 PM
We just published another community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by Maurice de Beijer , Visual Basic MVP, on .NET RIA Services. Maurice explains what they are and how they help you build Silverlight line-of-business applications. Sample Read More...
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Community Article: Automate Common Office Tasks
25 June 09 03:34 PM
If you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a new article from Robert Green (VSTO MVP) up on the Visual Basic and VSTO Dev Centers . In this article, learn how you can use Visual Basic to build application-level add-ins that automate common Microsoft Office Read More...
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Using TableAdapters to Insert Related Data into an MS Access Database
14 May 09 05:48 PM
I’ve posted before about how to use TableAdapters to update parent-child (master-detail) relationships against SQL server. It’s pretty straightforward and Visual Studio generates all the code for you to properly insert, update and delete your data. However 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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