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ASP.NET Dynamic Data Tutorials
30 September 08 01:41 PM
Bill Burrows has released more video tutorials! This time he focuses on the ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature that is available in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 .  If you need to build a quick web site against a database then you should definitely check this Read More...
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Editing Tabular Data in WPF - Building a WPF Grid
15 September 08 07:12 PM
In my last post on WPF I showed how you could use a Winforms DataGridView on a WPF form in order to edit data in a tabular style. Today I'll show you how you can customize the WPF ListView in order to edit data without having to use any Winforms controls Read More...
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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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Editing Tabular Data in WPF Using the Winforms DataGridView
04 September 08 04:09 PM
A pretty common requirement of any business application is to be able to edit data in a "spreadsheet" or tabular style. Usually we use some sort of data grid to do this. When building WPF applications in Visual Studio 2008 you'll notice right away that Read More...
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Better Data Editing Features in WPF with SP1
19 August 08 08:09 PM
One of the things I was really missing from WPF when I started to dig into data binding was feature consistency between the BindingListCollectionView and the Winforms BindingSource I had grown to love. The BindingListCollectionView provides the navigation, 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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Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9
30 June 08 02:12 PM
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 . (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly Read More...
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Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word
13 June 08 12:50 PM
Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and VSTO Portal , a new article Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 from a member of our Italian .NET community, Alessandro Del Sole . The article shows Read More...
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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 3 Database Transactions
16 April 08 12:03 PM
In my previous posts this week I showed how to build a simple distributed application with a Windows client, a WCF hosted middle-tier and a data access layer that used LINQ to SQL: LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier LINQ Read More...
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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 2 Building the Client
14 April 08 11:03 AM
In my last post we built the service and data access layer for our LINQ to SQL N-Tier application. In this post we'll walk through building a very simple Windows client form that works with our middle-tier. Adding the Service Reference Now that we have Read More...
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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier
12 April 08 09:01 AM
In my previous posts on LINQ to SQL I showed how to build LINQ to SQL classes and set up the data binding in your Windows applications. If you missed them: Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL One-To-Many Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008 Launch - Hands On Labs
04 April 08 04:20 PM
I was just informed that all the Hands On Labs from the Visual Studio/Windows Server/SQL Server 2008 launch events are available online here . I took a brief look at the " Visual Basic 9 Language Enhancements " lab and in general it looks good although Read More...
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New Video Tutorials from the Community
18 March 08 04:15 PM
Bill Burrows, Visual Basic MVP has just released a new set of video tutorials on using Excel for business intelligence using the Excel 2007 Data Mining Add-in . Bill has done a lot of tutorials in the past. If you haven't seen them, I also recommend the Read More...
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Watch 48 New Visual Basic "How Do I" Videos!
18 March 08 09:02 AM
We added 48 How Do I videos ( Forms over data , Windows development , Office development and Security ) to the Visual Basic developer Center in addition to adding new download formats for 12 others. This includes audio files, and additional videos files Read More...
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Webcast Tomorrow! - Introduction to LINQ in Visual Basic
06 March 08 05:45 PM
I'll be delivering a webcast tomorrow morning on an intro to LINQ in VB. If you're lost or just want to get started with it, join me and come see what it's all about. Live From Red Bethmond: VB9 - Introduction to LINQ in Visual Basic 3/7/2008 9:00 AM Read More...
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