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OK, no more SSDT jokes! SSDT, or SQL Server Data Tools, give you the features of SQL Server Management Studio within Visual Studio 2012. You can use the SQL Server Object Explorer from the SSDT to create and maintain tables in your databases. See this...
No, SSDT is not a disease; it is a set of SQL Server Data Tools that are included as part of Visual Studio 2012. You can use the SQL Server Object Explorer from the SSDT to maintain or view your databases. See this link for an introduction to SQL Server...
If you use Visual Studio AND SQL Server Management Studio, you'll be glad to hear that the SQL Server Management Studio tools, called SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), are now a part of Visual Studio 2012. You can create, edit, and delete SQL Server tables...
This post demonstrates how to use the ASP.NET Web API to access plain old custom objects (POCO) and build a service for a line of business application. No Entity Framework (EF). The Web API is a new easy-to-use framework that allows you to build a service...
You would think that giving an application a title and later retrieving that title would be a straightforward thing to do in VB.NET or C#. But it turns out to be a little complex, especially to find the appropriate place to enter the title then to write...
You can open Visual Studio multiple times, but each environment has the same settings. With Visual Studio 2010 and experimental instances, you can now have entirely different instances of Visual Studio with different settings. If you open up Visual Studio...
One of the biggest challenges of implementing validation in Silverlight is finding the appropriate technique based on your architecture and goals. There are lots of choices and lots of examples, but not all examples work in all scenarios. Plus many examples...
Many users want to print information from your line of business (LOB) application. This post covers the simple case where the user wants to print a copy of what they see on the screen. But instead of putting the print code in the code behind file, it...
There is so much to know these days with all of the new technologies, techniques, and tools in Visual Studio and the .NET framework. How do you even decide which technologies deserve your attention and which you can "give a miss"? One of the...
This prior post introduced commanding in Silverlight for use with MVVM. However, the built-in Silverlight commanding only works for controls that inherit from ButtonBase, such as Button and HyperlinkButton. This post provides information on implementing...
As you build your line of business (LOB) applications, you will need to process commands. In many cases, these commands are executed when the user clicks a button. For example, when the user clicks the Save button, the code needs to process a Save "command"...
I was very honored to hear last week that I won one of the Microsoft MVP Forum awards for top answerers. With 2879 posts last year (2010), I was able to provide 1174 answers in the MSDN forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories...
As you start to add more Views and associated View/Models to your Silverlight line of business (LOB) application, you will notice that the classes include some common and repeated code. Building a simple base class for your View/Models provides a single...
This prior post covered the details of setting up a database, defining an entity model using Entity Framework, building WCF RIA Services to access that entity model, and hooking it all up to a Silverlight DataGrid. That is all well and good. But most...
One of the challenges of building a Silverlight line of business (LOB) application is getting the data from the business database. The business database resides on a server computer and the Silverlight application resides on each user's computer....
If you built a custom theme for your application (similar to this prior post ) then you may find that your chart legend contents disappear. NOTE: This post is part of a series that starts with this prior post . The example in this post uses the application...
Data visualization is often a requirement in today's line of business (LOB) applications. Plus charts are just more fun to look at than data grids. Silverlight provides many different types of charts you can use to display the data in your LOB application...
When binding to a DataGrid, in most cases you have a fixed number of columns and a variable number of rows. This post covers the case when you have a variable number of rows AND a variable number of columns. NOTE: This post is part of a series that starts...
Model View View/Model (MVVM) is an effective pattern for building Silverlight applications. It provides many useful benefits when building business applications with Silverlight. NOTE: This post is part of a series that starts with this prior post . The...
One of the common requirements of a line of business application is to present data. This post demonstrates the basics of how to populate a DataGrid from a business object. This post is a "stepping stone" to the ultimate goal of populating the...
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