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WPF ListBox
Another old and faithful control that has made the transition to WPF is the ListBox. It’s pretty simple to create a ListBox, and load some values into it. <ListBox>...
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Tallahassee, FL Code Camp III
I’m pleased to announce I’ll be speaking at Tallahassee Code Camp III. The event takes place in Tallahassee Florida on Saturday, September 22nd. I’ll be speaking on SQL Server Compact Edition. For more...
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The WPF ComboBox
The other major listing control to cover is the ComboBox. It turns out that they are almost identical to ListBoxes. This simple code will add a combo box to your container (I’m using a StackPanel) and...
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The WPF CheckBox
Checkboxes in WPF are very straight forward controls, very similar to their WinForms predecessors. Adding them is a simple matter of using the <CheckBox> tag. Likely you’ll need to give each a...
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The WPF RadioButton
Being an old VB coder, I fondly remember this control as the Option Button, but these days it’s been renamed to the RadioButton. They are used to present the user with a set of mutually exclusive...
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WPF Tab Control
Continuing the series on visual grouping controls in WPF, the Tab control is a common UI element that has been around for some time. It makes a convenient way to organize your window when there is more...
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WPF Menus
The next control in the basic toolkit is the menu. Menus are much like a series of nested buttons in the way you deal with them. Let’s create a simple menu. I’ve added a DockPanel, so we could nest our...
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Arcane Fun Fridays
WHEW! All of this WPF / XAML sure has been a lot of fun. But I think it’s time to come up for air and see what else is happing out there in Dot Net land. Alabama Code Camp is coming up in just a little...
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Code Camp Samples
Tomorrow, Saturday October 6th I will be presenting “Getting Started with Full Text Searching”. Here are the materials I’ll be using during the demo. First, here is a PDF of the PowerPoint slides: Full...
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Little Bobby Tables
I love this cartoon from xkcd, it really emphasizes why you need to screen your data inputs to protect against SQL Injection Attacks. http://www.xkcd.com/327/ By the way, there’s a WebLog Awards going...
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An Early Christmas from Redmond
They’re here! Today Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 RTM. If you have an MSDN subscription you can download today and start producing all those new .Net 3.5 applications. Also released today via...
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SQL Server 2005 Full Text Searching at the Huntsville Alabama Code Camp
My third and final presentation for the Alabama Code Camp 6 is “Introduction to SQL Server Full Text Searching”. Here are the materials I’ll be using during the demo. First, here is a PDF of the...
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Presenting Getting Started with SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 at BUG.NET...
Just wanted to let everyone know I’ll be doing a presentation this coming Tuesday night, August the 12th for the Birmingham .Net Users Group (BUG.NET). My topic, as you may have guessed from the title,...
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Using SQL Server Reporting Services in Client Mode
Recently I did a presentation at the March BSDA meeting. I showed how to use SQL Server Reporting Services without a SQL Server, or more specifically a SQL Server running Reporting Services. It got an...
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Generating a PDF file from a Reporting Services Report Viewer Control
In yesterday’s post, I demonstrated how to generate a SQL Server Reporting Services report without having to have SQL Server Reporting Services. The sample application used the Microsoft Report Viewer...
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Accessing FILESTREAM Data From A Client .NET Application – Part 1 Uploading a...
The best way to work with documents in a database is via a .Net application. I created a simple Windows forms project to access the table I created in previous lessons. I named the application...
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Accessing FILESTREAM Data From A Client .NET Application – Part 2 Downloading...
In the previous entry we covered how to upload a file to SQL Server using the FILESTREAM, new to SQL Server 2008. In this post we will look at retrieving a file from SQL Server using FILESTREAM. If you...
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SSIS For Developers at CodeStock 2009
At the 2009 CodeStock event I am presenting SQL Server Integration Services for Developers. This class will demonstrate tasks commonly done by VB.Net or C# developers within SQL Server Integration...
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TechMixer University – SSIS for Developers
In addition to help recruit speakers, I also had the privilege of speaking at TechMixer University 2009. The slide deck and main demo can be found at my Code Gallery site:...
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Introduction This is the next installment in my series on creating objects in PowerShell. In the first installment we showed how to create an object using the class type introduced in PowerShell 5....
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