August 2009 - Posts

How to Change Appearance of all DataRepeater Items at Run Time
27 August 09 07:19 AM

DataRepeater control is one of the most important controls in Visual Basic PowerPacks . John Chen has recently posted a great blog about this control’s background and usage. As a complement, I want to talk about how to customize DataRepeater item appearance Read More...

Postedby Gavin Fu | 2 Comments    

Filed under: WinForm, VB Power Packs

Some error messages when you use the Data Source Configuration Wizard in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
21 August 09 02:27 PM

After you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, in some situations, when you try to use Data Source Configuration Wizard to create a connection, you may see the following error messages, Error message 1: Could not load type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.DataDesign.SyncDesigner.SyncFacade.SyncManager' Read More...

Postedby Shichao Hu | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, Data Source Wizard

DataRepeater Control for Windows Forms
12 August 09 01:44 PM

The DataRepeater control is available in the Visual Basic Power Packs . As Yun Feng introduced in his post , the Visual Basic Power Packs is included in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and will also be shipped in Visual Studio 2010 . The DataRepeater Read More...

Postedby John Chen | 6 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, VS2010, Data Binding, WinForm, VB Power Packs

Build Your Own Navigation Bar in WPF with Insert / Save / Delete Action
08 August 09 05:05 PM

Some time ago, we built a navigation bar for our WPF application to navigate data. We can make it even more powerful, and add CRUD support into it. Because we are using Entity Data Framework, it’s pretty easy to achieve this. Don’t believe it? Let’s first Read More...

Postedby XiaoyingGuo | 4 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, VS2010, Data Binding, Entity Framework