July 2009 - Posts

Debugging with Local Database File
31 July 09 02:56 AM

Most of the time, your business application needs to deal with data stored in a database. Sometimes the database is on a remote server, while sometimes it is a local database file (SQL Server Compact database file, SQL Server Express database file, or Read More...

Postedby Yang Cao | 2 Comments    

Filed under: SQL Server Express, Business Object, Debugging, SQL Server Compact

Multi-Targeting and N-Tier Dataset
29 July 09 03:21 PM

Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio What is Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio? The multi-targeting feature of Visual Studio lets you specify the version of the .NET Framework, or its profile, that is required for your application. For example, with Multi-Targeting, Read More...

Postedby Shichao Hu | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Typed Dataset, Multi-Targeting

Visual Basic Power Packs is included in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
24 July 09 07:47 AM

After Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 was released to the web, we got a lot of questions and feedbacks from Visual Basic Power Packs MSDN forum .   So when Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was about to release, we decided to ship  Visual Read More...

Postedby Yunfeng Dong | 7 Comments    

Filed under: VB Power Packs

Good News, Better News, and the Best News
22 July 09 07:15 PM

Yesterday our Shanghai Office witnessed the longest total solar eclipse of 21st century! The eclipse happened from 9:36AM to 9:40AM. The whole city was immersed into absolute dark in just a minute! We’re so lucky to experience this, unfortunately it was Read More...

Postedby Yang Cao | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Conference, Announcement

Visual Studio Data – Related Technologies and Tools
14 July 09 10:32 PM

As you may notice the Visual Studio Data (vsdata) blog is evolving.  It is great to see more blogs come out from this team (special thanks to our driver PMs: Beth and Yang) and more bloggers, especially developers and testers, contributing to the Read More...

Postedby John Chen | 0 Comments    

Filed under: VS DATA General

Customize format of DateTime string in WPF and WinForm data binding
07 July 09 04:17 AM

Drag-and-drop data binding helps you build business applications very easily, however sometimes you still need to customize the layout or format after data binding is set. For example, I built a simple application to display all the Customers, and for Read More...

Postedby Yang Cao | 1 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, Data Binding, WinForm

Tips: Using “Navigate To…” for search in Visual Studio
02 July 09 08:53 AM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 provides a great feature called “Navigate To”. You can find this feature under the “Edit” menu or use the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl + COMMA” to bring up the “Navigate To” dialog. This feature provides search-as-you-type support Read More...

Postedby Yaohai | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Miscellaneous, VS2010, Tips