April 2008 - Posts
Visual Studio 2008 automates the migration process and allows you to continue working with older versions of the .NET Framework. Tony Patton will ease your concerns about migrating to Visual Studio 2008 with this overview of what a migration entails.
Perry shares his take on the best LINQ to SQL features, walks you through the biggest changes from ObjectSpaces and more.
A article on how to "pimp" your WPF ListView!
This article describes how to add printing features to a DataGridView using the .NET Framework 3.5.
XPS is a fixed document format derived from XAML. So how do you use it to produce documents you want? Lee Humphries shows you how in Part 1 of this series.
This articles steps through the code of a library that makes it easy to use CSV files with LINQ queries.
A article on how to render a Word document in a WPF FlowDocument control by parsing the OpenXML WordML using XLINQ.
An article about the WPF Layout System that focuses on extensibility. Included is a application that demonstrates some of the best custom layout panels available on the net.
This article demonstrates a variety of Windows Forms data binding features using several simple examples.
Matt Sollars explains how to overcoming challenges with LINQ to SQL and using LINQ with SQL Server Compact Edition.
In the fourth part of this article, I show how to add the following commands: Open, Save, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Print, Group, Ungroup, Align, Distribute, and Order.
.NET 3.5 introduced a number of new language features, including LINQ, but the new 3D WPF elements got lost in the introduction. This multipart article discusses WPF's 3D elements and how they make 3D programming simple and effective.
The web browser user experience includes a "go back, go forward" navigation metaphor by default. This is useful for WinForms applications as well, especially for complex, multi-field applications. This article presents a History class to do just that.
There are manys ways to improve performance in Windows Forms applications. One of these is to not populate the databoud controls in the Load event directly. Adel discusses this and others ways to improve the performance of Windows Forms Applications.
This is the third in a series of articles on writing WPF business applications in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2008. In it I cover how to decorate business entity objects for codeless entity validation and entity log message creation.
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