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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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XAML Power Toys Released for Visual Studio 2010
26 October 09 04:25 PM
I finally made my way back home from Europe and I’m still digging through all my email, newsletters, feeds, etc. But one of the items that grabbed my attention is this week Karl Shifflett released updated XAML Power Tools for Visual Studio 2008 as well Read More...
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WPF In-Depth with Billy Hollis
12 October 09 10:12 AM
If you’re up in Redmond, the . NET Developers Association has a very special guest for their meeting tonight. Billy Hollis will be speaking on WPF showing off a real business application he developed. Billy has a very “practical programmer” style that Read More...
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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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Using Windows Presentation Foundation in Office Clients
10 August 09 05:31 PM
I was cleaning up my desk today and in the piles of mail and gobs of paper I found the SDN Magazine “Women in Technology” issue 101 that featured an article I wrote that was released in print back in May. Well, I just noticed today that near the end of Read More...
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WPF or Silverlight? Billy Hollis Shares His Thoughts on Channel 9
23 July 09 01:25 PM
One of my favorite Visual Basic MVP’s, Billy Hollis, was caught at TechEd by the Patterns&Practices folks for a quick chat. In this short 2-minute interview Billy shares his opinions on WPF and Silverlight. Check it out: Billy Hollis on WPF and Silverlight Read More...
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Filtering Entity Framework Collections in Master-Detail Forms
16 July 09 05:18 PM
Last post I talked about how to get WPF data binding to work with master-detail entity collections. I had a couple readers ask me how they could filter the child collection instead of bringing them all down so in this post I’d like to show how you could 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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New “How Do I” Video Series Released
01 July 09 05:28 PM
I just released 3 new videos onto the VB Dev Center starting a new series on how to do WPF data binding with Entity Framework using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This is a “no frills” WPF series that focuses on data so you won’t see any other tools Read More...
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Good Times at DevTeach, Vancouver
19 June 09 05:24 PM
Last week I spoke at DevTeach in Vancouver which was held at the beautiful Four Seasons in downtown. I love this Canadian conference because the attendees are great – super friendly and social, and ask a lot of great questions. I mostly interacted with 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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