We’ve heard a lot of great feedback from VB developers about the Whidbey product this year, in many different ways. We visited a bunch of cities on our world wide user group tour (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/worldtour); we’ve read blogs and newsgroups; held chats; and gone to conferences, among other things. And of course there&rsq...
We're going to have two data-related Visual Basic chats on the week of October 11th, 2004. The first chat is devoted to the Windows Forms DataGrid control, where you can get answers to your questions about some of the more subtle point about the control. In the second chat, you can learn about the successor to the DataGrid and many of the other enc...
For B1 we generated typed column events and event args. The Typed Column Events and Event Args have been cut and will be removed in Beta 2. The scenario will still be enabled as we’ll generate an event handler when needed in the designer. Please look for info in our team blog on B1 to B2 changes. I hope to post these c...
This is a link to the sample that will accompany an upcoming article in CoDe magazine. http://windowsforms.net/samples/CustomControlSample.zip In this example I demonstrate several types of objects: 1:1, 1:Many and the use of Custom Controls. Thanks,Steve
As promised, I’ve put together a sample that demonstrates how to create a transactional update using the new Whidbey TableAdapters. http://windowsforms.net/samples/ThreeLevelUpdate.zipIn this sample I create a Parent, Child and Grandchild relationship. The tables are named, Parent, Child and Grandchild… JUsing the sample you can ...
This was one of the hardest decisions we had to make. We know this is a very intuitive way to work. I’ve got my database, and I want it on my form (period).BackgroundFirst, lets look at what we had in 2002, 2003. In 2003 you could drag from Server Explorer to your form, but we didn’t give you textboxes and labels. &nbs...
I posted an update on the suggestions the VB team has received from the Product Feedback Center and what how they have been resolved. Check out my blog.http://blogs.msdn.com/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/08/25/220317.aspxRobert GreenVB Program Manager
There have been some great articles on My coming out over the past month. This article by Jesse Liberty provides some good examples of how My services can be integrated into applications. If you're working with the Beta, you may notice a few discrepancies between the article and the Beta bits. For example, My.DataSources...
The short answer:We’ve updated from untyped, configured DataAdapters to Typed, Code Generated classes similar to the type DataSet for DataAdapters. or: The reasoning:With new releases of products, we work to make experiences better. In Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005), we were able to pick up where we left off in 2002 for generating ...
A statement we hear a lot is:“The Typed DataSet is great, but the DataAdapters don’t support joined queries. I need a relational model in the database, but I need my application model to flatten things out:” Using the Data Component Wizard, which is essentially the 2003 DataAdapter Wizard, developers can create an updat...
