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New “How Do I” Videos Released on Entity Framework & WPF
26 August 09 10:18 AM
Yesterday we released a couple more videos onto the Visual Basic Developer Center on building WPF data-entry forms with Entity Framework: How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF using Entity Framework? How Do I: Build a WPF Master-Detail Data 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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WPF Data Binding Samples on Code Gallery
17 June 09 12:41 PM
One of the many samples released for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that you should be aware of are examples of WPF data binding against Entity Data Models. You can find some easy to follow samples here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WPFDatabinding This sample Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Everyone can download and play today!
20 May 09 10:50 AM
Here it is folks, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 has been released to the public today. Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 site to download the Beta, submit product feedback on the Beta 1 Forums , report bugs on Connect , and find 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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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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Channel 9 Interview: WPF Improvements in VS2010 for Business Apps
24 March 09 09:01 AM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 on WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps . At the MVP Summit a few weeks ago, Italian MVP Alessandro del Sole was so excited about the new WPF features in Visual Studio 2010 that he asked Read More...
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Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8
02 February 09 07:09 PM
The last week I've been working with a couple teammates on an Office Business Application (OBA) demonstration we wanted to put together for TechReady 8. TechReady is an internal conference we deliver to the field employees. It's my first one and so far Read More...
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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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ADO.NET Data Services - Building a WPF Client
15 January 09 08:30 PM
In my last post I introduced ADO.NET Data Services and how you can easily expose your data model via RESTful services that support the basic CRUD (Create,Retrieve,Update,Delete) operations. Basic CRUD database operations map well to the familiar HTTP Read More...
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New WPF "How Do I" Video on Formatting Data Entry
06 January 09 11:18 AM
We just released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry forms using the IValueConverter like I showed in a previous post . The IValueConverter allows you full control over the display of the data as well as Read More...
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Formatting Data in WPF Controls
12 December 08 04:32 PM
One of the basic things that we need to do as business application developers is to make sure that data being displayed to a user makes sense to them and that they know what type of data something is when they are making edits. In every business application Read More...
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WPF Forms over Data Gets Easier in Visual Studio 2010
25 November 08 07:48 PM
Today I was looking at comments on one of my WPF videos on how to create a Master-Detail form in WPF and I had to agree: "I was looking into learning WPF - but jeez, what happened to RAD?  It takes all this to create a simple Master/Detail form?" Read More...
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New WPF How Do I Videos Released!
03 November 08 10:50 AM
I posted two more WPF "Forms over Data" videos onto the Developer Center that you should check out. How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF? - learn how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008 Service Read More...
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