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Easier Sync
26 September 09 03:09 PM

If you’ve been using Data Source Configuration Wizard since Visual Studio 2005, you’ll notice that with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 , there’s a “small” change – on Choose Your Database Objects page, a new checkbox would allow you to “enable local Read More...

Postedby Yang Cao | 0 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, Data Source Wizard, Occasionally Connected System

Writing Event Handler for controls in a DataRepeaterItem
08 September 09 03:54 PM

In the MSDN Visual Basic Power Packs forum , I had an embarrassing reply on a DataRepeater event handling question, in which the user asked why his event handling code did not work. Here is the original question: “I want to be able to resize a textbox Read More...

Postedby John Chen | 0 Comments    

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

How to Workaround Sorting Errors when Updating Self-Referencing DataSet Tables with Visual Studio 2008 SP1
05 September 09 05:14 AM

Hierarchical update is an important feature of typed dataset that refers to the process of saving updated data back to a database while maintaining referential integrity rules. This feature is enhanced in Visual Studio 2008 by introducing a TableAdapterManger Read More...

Postedby Gavin Fu | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Typed Dataset, VS2008, SQL Server, WinForm

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

My experience on Connect Feedbacks
09 June 09 05:02 PM

Recently I have been working with some Visual Studio feedbacks reported through Microsoft Connect . I found that some feedbacks may contain multiple unrelated issues. On the other hand, one issue may be reported several times by the same person in different Read More...

Postedby John Chen | 5 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, VS2010, Connect, Debugging

How to get call stack of Visual Studio?
08 June 09 04:45 PM

If you want to use the VS debugger to get a call stack or dump file of an exception of VS. You can do so with a second instance of Visual Studio. Here is the steps I would use: 1)       Have your working Visual Studio running: Read More...

Postedby John Chen | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, VS2010

Building WPF Business Applications using Entity Framework
15 May 09 07:06 PM

I’ve been writing a lot about building WPF business applications with Entity Framework using Visual Studio 2008. If you’re just starting this type of development you may want to read the following: Data Binding WPF Lookup Combobox Values to EF Entities Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, WPF, Entity Framework

Using TableAdapters to Insert Related Data into an MS Access Database
14 May 09 06:54 PM

I’ve posted before about how to use TableAdapters to update parent-child (master-detail) relationships against SQL server. It’s pretty straightforward and Visual Studio generates all the code for you to properly insert, update and delete your data. However Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Typed Dataset, VS2008

VS 2005 patch for SQL Server 2008
21 November 07 08:14 PM

SQL Server 2008, Noverber 2007 CTP was recently released. We've also released a CTP of Visual Studio 2005 Support for SQL Server 2008 . This will enable you to use VS2005 against SQL Server 2008. For more information about this patch, see the Knowledge Read More...

Postedby MilindLele | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008, SQL Server

New Data Tools Features in Visual Studio Orcas
09 March 07 02:51 AM

Here's a list of new data tools features in Visual Studio. I will be discussing each one in more detail in upcoming posts. Object Relational Designer The object relational mapping technology lets you map relational databases to objects. Once the mapping Read More...

Postedby youngjoo | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2008