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New Channel9 Video Beyond the Basics
Just watched a new Channel9 video (here) where Beth Massi interviews Joe Binder, a Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch team. Joe and Beth talk about LightSwitch?extensibility....
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Allow User to Update Entity Framework Database Connection
I had a scenario where I needed to somehow allow a user to point the application to another database. Seems like a simple thing to do, however I am using the Entity Framework in an application that is...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net – Part 1 – An Introduction
Seems that all the MVVM hype has caught up to me. And, like any good band wagon jumper on’er, I’ve decided to take up arms (or rather, lift them high and flail them around a lot) to learn what MVVM is...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net – Part 2 – The Model
This is the second in a series are articles on MVVM and WPF for VB.Net developers. The Model My MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Article Index Part 1 – An Introduction Part 2 – The Model Part 3 – The View Part...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Part 3 The View
This is the third article in a series where I talk about my experiences in learning about the View in a MVVM WPF application using VB.Net. My MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Article Index Part 1 – An...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Part 4 The ViewModel
In t he last article I created a View that will be the interface between the user and data. Now for the fun stuff; creating the ViewModel. My MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Article Index Part 1 – An...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Part 5 Delegating Commands
After what was accomplished in my last article, I am part way to achieving my overall goals. I now need to provide some interaction between the View and the ViewModel so that when a user clicks on an...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Part 6 Command On Demand
This is part 6 of a series of articles talking about my experiences messing with WPF and MVVM. In this article I build on what I learned in my last article about binding commands using the ViewModel...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Series 2 – Part 1 (again)
Back to the Drawing Board In previous set of MVVM and WPF for VB.Net articles I walked through a bunch of steps that resulted in an incredibily simple WPF MVVM example. The last article was posted two...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Series 2 Part 2 – References
This is part 2 of a series of articles in which I demonstrate how to create a MVVM patterned WPF application using vb.net. In part 1 a solution project structure was created. In this article the...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Series 2 – Part 4 – The Models
In the previous article in this series, the underlying data store was created for the solution. In this article, we begin the work of creating the Models for our MVVM solution. For this solution, the...
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MVVM and WPF for VB.Net Series 2 Part 7 The View
In the previous article, a ViewModel was created for our simple little MVVM solution. This article takes the next step in building a View that will bind to the ViewModel we created. Building on what...
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Entity Framework 4 and SQL UniqueIdentifier Bug
For the last little while I’ve been banging my head against the desk, trying to figure out an issue when creating records that used a SQL UniqueIdentifier data type. It turns out that the issues I...
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Creating a Custom Business Type
As a data centric application development tool, Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 provides a set of out of the box data types that satisfy most your application data requirement needs. Simple...
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Looking for a great way to lighten the workload of creating and using instances of your entity framework generated models? Here is how I implemented a simple singleton pattern to make sure I only use...
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Data First and Breaking Some Rules
This is is part two of a series of articles that walks through the A Little Productivity application and its source. In this article I talk about the data first approach I took in creating the business...
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