February 2008 - Posts
Shapes and Paths in WPF are actually made up of, or defined by, Geometries. Geometries, in turn, are made up of segments. These segments can be straight lines or curved lines. There are a number of path segments that can be used to create simple or complex paths. In this video, Todd Miranda demonstrates how to create use path segments to create a path.
Author: Todd Miranda
This segment builds a small WinFom application using SQL Express and shows how to deploy it using “ClickOnce” (briefly) and the VS Setup and Deployment project in detail including conditional installation of the Database files
Author: Pat Tormey http://www.4square.net/
Visual Basic programmers will learn how to properly control updates, inserts and deletes in multi-user applications on forms that edit master-detail related data using the TableAdapterManager in Visual Studio 2008.
Presented by Beth Massi
Many distributed architectures use DataSets on the client and the server when both are written with .NET. In this video, Visual Basic developers will learn how to use the new N-Tier DataSets in Visual Studio 2008 that makes this architectural scenario easy to accomplish.
Presented by Beth Massi
The Timer Control fires an event at specified time intervals. You can use timer events to poll a system resource such as a web site. There are two timer controls and we will show you how to use both in this video.
In this video Pat Tormey demonstrates the use of ClickOnce for application deployment.
Author: Pat Tormey
Ink is not just for tablets. There are times it makes sense to include ink support in non-tablet applications as well. The InkCanvas control in WPF makes it very easy for developers to include Ink support in their applications with little or no code. In this video, Todd Miranda demonstrates how to enable ink support in a WPF application and how to persist stroke data to a file.
Author: Todd Miranda
Animation in a linear path will not always meet your need. Often it is necessary to confine animation to a path more complex than a straight line. In this video, Todd Miranda demonstrates how to confine animation to a non-linear path.
Author: Todd Miranda
SmartClient Code Analysis walks through a quick review of the SmartClient application we’ve built in previous videos and demonstrates how to use Team Suites Code Analysis tools to set and maintain personal and team standards. This session covers: Using Code Analysis; Creating Code Analysis tasks in Team System; Migrating Code Analysis to all Team members; Selecting and deselecting Tasks; Setting select rules as Compiler Warnings.
Author: Pat Tormey
SmartClient Performance Analysis walks through a quick review of the SmartClient application we’ve built in previous videos and demonstrates how to use Team Edition’s Performance Analysis tools to isolate and test application bottlenecks and introduces SQL Server Profiler.
This session covers
- Using Team Edition Performance tools in the IDE
- Identifying Bottlenecks on the Smart Client code
- Sampling versus Instrumentation Testing
- Introduction to Using SQL Server Profile filtered to profile a specific application
Author: Pat Tormey
This video covers how and when to validate during data entry with examples for individual controls and interdependent controls and includes Regular Expressions techniques.
Author: Pat Tormey
This training video runs through a couple of quick examples of converting Project items (Classes, Forms etc) and Entire Projects to templates for re-use and sharing among your development team or just for individual use. Templates are easy to use and promise great consistency among applications, while reducing your overall development effort! You really need to try this for yourself.
Author: Pat Tormey
This video training session starts by creating a simple Webservice and using the Webservice data in a local SmartClient Windows Forms application. It explores formatting, remote data access and using the Table and Matrix Controls.
Author: Pat Tormey
This training video walks through a first time use of SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (SQLCE) using release version 3.1.
Using the Northwind SDF file the walkthrough builds a Windows Forms application to edit the embedded database.
This video covers:
Author: Pat Tormey
Smart Client Unit Testing explores the built in Unit testing tools in Visual Studio Team Suite.
From a simple calculation the sample walks thru how to expand the testing, how to test new methods, some discussion of refactoring and a brief discussion of Code Coverage and Bug reporting when TeamSuite is paired with Team Foundation Server.
Author: Pat Tormey
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