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Integrate SharePoint List Data in Your WPF Application
26 November 09 05:00 AM

With the SharePoint 2010 Beta came out of the door, one of the exciting news is that it allows developers to access SharePoint List Data using ADO.Net Data Service 1.5 . If you are familiar with Data Service Client programming mode (we have already posted Read More...

Postedby dubin | 0 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, Data Binding, Sharepoint

WPF Data Binding: How to Bind DataSet to WPF Designer
13 November 09 05:58 AM

WPF Data Binding: How to Bind DataSet to WPF Designer In our previous posts, we mostly used the Entity Data Model as the ORM (Object-relational mapping) layer for the WPF Data Binding scenarios. Meanwhile, since DataSet is used broadly, we also provide Read More...

Postedby Yaohai | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Typed Dataset, WPF, VS2010, Data Binding

Accessing Master-Detail Data through ADO.NET Data Service in a Silverlight Application (Part 2)
07 November 09 02:42 AM

In Part 1 of this post, we developed our Silverlight application to access data through an ADO.NET Data Service. So far we are able to load the data at run time and navigate through the data records back and forth. Let’s now develop more functionality Read More...

Postedby XiangZeng | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VS2010, Data Binding, Entity Framework, ADO.Net Data Services

Accessing Master-Detail Data through ADO.NET Data Service in a Silverlight Application (Part 1)
22 October 09 11:26 AM

With Visual Studio 2010 Beta2, users can add data sources to a Silverlight application using the Data Source Configuration Wizard . The added data source is shown in the Data Sources tool window, and can be drag-dropped to Silverlight designer, with data-bound Read More...

Postedby XiangZeng | 0 Comments    

Filed under: VS2010, Data Binding, Entity Framework, ADO.Net Data Services, Data Source Wizard

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is here!
20 October 09 12:25 AM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has been released! Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 site to download the Beta, submit product feedback on the Beta Forums , report bugs on Connect , and watch videos about Visual Studio 2010 on Channel Read More...

Postedby Yang Cao | 0 Comments    

Filed under: VS2010

Entity Data Model: working with foreign key when you don’t have it
16 October 09 12:05 AM

It’s been debatable whether to include FK (foreign key) columns in the conceptual model. That’s why in Visual Studio 2010, a checkbox is added to Entity Data Model Wizard, so that the decision is left to the developers. While I was playing with it yesterday, Read More...

Postedby Yang Cao | 0 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, Data Binding, Entity Framework

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

Refresh the Primary Key Identity Column during Insert Operation
14 September 09 10:17 PM

If you have an identity primary key column defined in a database table, its value will be automatically set by the database engine when you insert a new row to the table. The identity value is determined by the column’s Identity Seed and Identity Increment Read More...

Postedby John Chen | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Typed Dataset, SQL Server, Data Binding, SQL Server Compact

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

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

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