The Visual Basic Team : Milind Lele

Channel 9 Interview: WPF Improvements in VS2010 for Business Apps (Beth Massi, Milind Lele)

VBTeam — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:01:08 GMT

Today I posted a new 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 me if he could interview Milind Lele himself to get the low-down -- I said sure!

Milind is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team. In this interview he chats with Alessandro about the new WPF improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for building business applications. This time Milind shows off the new Visual Studio UI and the new WPF data grid as he quickly builds a master-details form against an Entity Data Model using the new RAD drag-drop data binding features for WPF.

Also check out Milind's blog post on this topic for more information.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Channel 9 Interview: WPF Drag-Drop Data Binding in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)

VBTeam — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:00:04 GMT

I just posted a new Channel 9 video with Milind Lele, Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team. In this interview Milind shows one of the new RAD improvements I was talking about that is coming to WPF in Visual Studio 2010 -- Drag-Drop Data Binding.

Also check out his blog post on this topic for more information. His team is looking for feedback on this feature so visit the Visual Studio 2010 CTP page to download the CTP and visit the feedback forums.

See it in action for yourself on Channel 9.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Drag-drop data binding for WPF in Visual Studio 2010 (Milind Lele)

VBTeam — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:39:00 GMT

One of the improvements in VS2010 (CTP available for download here) is drag and drop data binding for WPF. Drag-drop data binding has been available for WinForms since Visual Studio 2005. So those of you that are familiar with that will find the WPF experience quite similar and readily usable. In VS2010 we've brought that to WPF.

VS2008 SP1 brought the ability to add an Entity Data Model (EDM) to your projects. In VS2010 we've added support for EDM in the data sources window. Thus when you add an EDM to your project, the entities show up in the data sources window. You can simply drag the entities and drop them onto your WPF form or control to bind them.

I blogged about this on the Visual Studio Data blog recently.

Download the CTP, give it a try and do let me know what you think.

Milind Lele
Program Manager

Channel 9 Interview: SQL 2008 & Occasionally Connected Client Support in Visual Studio SP1 (Beth Massi)

VBTeam — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:11:00 GMT

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 for SQL Server 2008.

Using SQL 2008 built-in change tracking, you don't need to make modifications to your table schemas like you have to do with SQL 2005. Additionally he shows off a "smarter" DataSet designer where you can have tables coming from server and client data stores all contained within one model making maintenance easier.

SQL 2008 & Occasionally Connected Client Support in Visual Studio SP1

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, VS Community

Channel 9 Interview - Offline Data Synchronization Services in Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi)

VBTeam — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:39:00 GMT

I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Milind Lele showing us his favorite VS 2008 features - the new Data Synchronization designer and how the sync services for ADO.NET work to support occasionally connected scenarios. He shows us how to set up a local database cache using SQL Compact Edition and how to use it to store read-only data caches as well as how to add the code to support two-way synchronization.

If anyone's ever tried to implement an occasionally connected smart client, they'll very much appreciate this new tooling and framework in Visual Studio 2008. For more information on sync services catch up on The Synchronizer blog.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, VS Community