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Visual Studio 2010 Localized Code Samples Available!
Visual Studio 2010 Localized Code Samples for all Visual Studio supported languages are now...
Date: 08/08/2010
SQL Azure Support in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 supports data connections to SQL Azure, query designing, data manipulation, and...
Date: 08/04/2010
Walkthrough of creating association between Sharepoint BDC entities using Visual Studio 2010
Here comes our third blog in BDC serials Walkthrough of creating association between Sharepoint BDC...
Date: 08/02/2010
Deploy your BDC model to a specific BCS Service using Visual Studio 2010
Please read on this blog post if you want to deploy a BDC model to the desired SharePoint BCS...
Date: 07/30/2010
Class Designer PowerToys for Visual Studio 2010 is Released
Class Designer PowerToys for Visual Studio 2010 is released today! It provides a bunch of...
Date: 07/26/2010
WPF-EDM: Binding to Stored Procedures
Using Stored Procedures to Convert Database Data When building WPF database applications, you might...
Date: 06/17/2010
No-Build Experience Enhancement in WCF RIAServices 1.0 RTW
Introduction In the WCF RIA Services PDC release, Live IntelliSense was first introduced to...
Date: 06/01/2010
Data Validation in Silverlight
In this blog, I will show you three approaches to do data validation in Silverlight. Sample...
Date: 05/30/2010
Silverlight 4 Tools for VS2010 and WCF RIA Services 1.0 Released!
This is the final release for Silverlight 4 Tools for VS2010, WCF RIA Services 1.0 runtime and...
Date: 05/25/2010
Customizing Your WPF/Silverlight UI using Value Converter and/or Partial Class Properties
When writing data applications, one of the things we need to take care is the difference between the...
Date: 05/11/2010
Workaround to Data Source Window not populating RIA Services Domain Context Objects
Recently, we found a bug that hidden in the WCF RIA Services RC release setup authoring, which...
Date: 04/12/2010
Enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010
Recently we published a blog Walkthrough of enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using...
Date: 03/18/2010
Using Printer to print all the records of DataRepeater
One question being asked about DataRepeater in the MSDN forum is that how to print all the populated...
Date: 03/04/2010
How to Move a Shape control with Mouse Events?
The Shape control in Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks provides several useful events, including...
Date: 03/02/2010
Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2
Visual Studio 2010 provides drag-and-drop data binding from the Data Sources window in Silverlight...
Date: 02/03/2010
Building Look-Up Binding with the VS Data Source Window
About six months ago, Milind wrote a post about how to leverage the Data Source Window to build...
Date: 02/02/2010
Data Connection Dialog Source Code is released on Code Gallery!
Based on customer requests, we have decided to release the data connection dialog source code on...
Date: 02/01/2010
Build Your Own Custom Controls for WPF & Silverlight Data Binding
As posted in our previous articles, Visual Studio 2010 offers “Drag and Drop Data Binding” for WPF...
Date: 01/21/2010
Using the DataRepeater Virtual Mode
While answering questions in the forums, I came across a recurring question about how the Virtual...
Date: 01/07/2010
Visual Basic PowerPacks is released in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2!
Many of you have been asking about this and here is the good news: VB PowerPacks has been released...
Date: 12/29/2009
Manage Business Data in SharePoint 2010 using VisualStudio 2010
If you want to manage business data in SharePoint 2010 Beta, you can use VisualStudio 2010 Beta to...
Date: 12/23/2009
VS SDK 2010 Samples for WCF Service Consumption Tools
Today, we finished the work to upgrade SDK samples for WCF Service Consumption Tools to VS SDK 2010...
Date: 12/09/2009
Live IntelliSense in WCF RIA Services for VS2010
Live IntelliSense is one of the new features added into WCF RIA Services PDC release on VS2010. It...
Date: 12/02/2009
The Data Source Window Support in WCF RIA Services
WCF RIA Services Beta was announced at PDC09 one week ago. It contains a lot of runtime support to...
Date: 11/30/2009
Integrate SharePoint List Data in Your WPF Application
With the SharePoint 2010 Beta came out of the door, one of the exciting news is that it allows...
Date: 11/25/2009
WPF Data Binding: How to Bind DataSet to WPF Designer
WPF Data Binding: How to Bind DataSet to WPF Designer In our previous posts, we mostly used the...
Date: 11/12/2009
Accessing Master-Detail Data through ADO.NET Data Service in a Silverlight Application (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this post, we developed our Silverlight application to access data through an ADO.NET...
Date: 11/07/2009
Accessing Master-Detail Data through ADO.NET Data Service in a Silverlight Application (Part 1)
With Visual Studio 2010 Beta2, users can add data sources to a Silverlight application using the...
Date: 10/22/2009
Entity Data Model: working with foreign key when you don’t have it
It’s been debatable whether to include FK (foreign key) columns in the conceptual model. That’s why...
Date: 10/15/2009
Easier Sync
If you’ve been using Data Source Configuration Wizard since Visual Studio 2005, you’ll notice that...
Date: 09/26/2009
Refresh the Primary Key Identity Column during Insert Operation
If you have an identity primary key column defined in a database table, its value will be...
Date: 09/15/2009
Writing Event Handler for controls in a DataRepeaterItem
In the MSDN Visual Basic Power Packs forum, I had an embarrassing reply on a DataRepeater event...
Date: 09/08/2009
How to Workaround Sorting Errors when Updating Self-Referencing DataSet Tables with Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Hierarchical update is an important feature of typed dataset that refers to the process of saving...
Date: 09/05/2009
How to Change Appearance of all DataRepeater Items at Run Time
DataRepeater control is one of the most important controls in Visual Basic PowerPacks. John Chen has...
Date: 08/27/2009
Some error messages when you use the Data Source Configuration Wizard in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
After you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, in some situations, when you try to...
Date: 08/21/2009
DataRepeater Control for Windows Forms
The DataRepeater control is available in the Visual Basic Power Packs. As Yun Feng introduced in his...
Date: 08/12/2009
Build Your Own Navigation Bar in WPF with Insert / Save / Delete Action
Some time ago, we built a navigation bar for our WPF application to navigate data. We can make it...
Date: 08/08/2009
Debugging with Local Database File
Most of the time, your business application needs to deal with data stored in a database. Sometimes...
Date: 07/30/2009
Multi-Targeting and N-Tier Dataset
Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio What is Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio? The multi-targeting...
Date: 07/29/2009
Visual Basic Power Packs is included in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
After Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 was released to the web, we got a lot of questions and feedbacks...
Date: 07/24/2009
Good News, Better News, and the Best News
Yesterday our Shanghai Office witnessed the longest total solar eclipse of 21st century! The eclipse...
Date: 07/22/2009
Visual Studio Data – Related Technologies and Tools
As you may notice the Visual Studio Data (vsdata) blog is evolving. It is great to see more...
Date: 07/15/2009
Customize format of DateTime string in WPF and WinForm data binding
Drag-and-drop data binding helps you build business applications very easily, however sometimes you...
Date: 07/06/2009
Tips: Using “Navigate To…” for search in Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 provides a great feature called “Navigate To”. You can find this feature...
Date: 07/02/2009
Hello, TechEd 2009!
May 11 – 15, 2009. Los Angeles. It is always exciting to attend conferences like TechEd and talk to...
Date: 06/29/2009
Build Your Own Navigation Bar for Data Navigation in WPF
You may have known that drag-drop data-binding experience has been introduced to WPF application...
Date: 06/22/2009
Full sample code behind in data navigatior
public partial class Window1 : Window { private WpfDataNavigationApplication.NorthwindEntities...
Date: 06/21/2009
WPF Data Binding: Lookup tables
A few weeks ago I wrote about creating a master-details form, where we looked at an example of a...
Date: 06/17/2009
WPF 4 Beta 1 Designer Video Series on Channel 9
I was browsing Channel 9 today, and saw the video Mark Wilson-Thomas demonstrating the easy...
Date: 06/16/2009