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Hi @Brian

1. We are not yet ready to discuss the SKU support or pricing for SQL Server Developer Tools, Code-named "Juneau". Sorry. When we are ready, the details will be available via our MSDN site http://msdn.com/data/tools.aspx

2. You are correct to say that these tools are the natural descendents of the "Data Dude" tools in Visual Studio 2010 Premium and Ultimate editions. In our V1 offering, shipping with SQL Server "Denali", we will have a few notable missing items as enumerated on the later slides of the presentation, but many of these will be made available shortly after Visual Studio "vNext" ships.  Developers working in Visual Studio 2010 will have the option to convert their projects to work in the new project type as shown in this demo, or carry on working in the existing "Data Dude" bits.

3. Your comment is noted; this is a frequently-requested feature and we are considering it for a future release. Are there particular aspects of your reference data workflow you would like to see support for?

4. At present Database Unit Testing is one of the Data Dude features which will not arrive until post Visual Studio "vNext". Can you give some further detail of what you mean by "plans for Test Suites built around your UDFs and SPs" - what specific features are you looking for here? Feel free to drop me email at mwthomas at microsoft dot com, I would be happy to hear your feedback.

5. As mentioned in the beginning of the talk, in SQL Server "Denali" ' s next CTP in the summer, all the current "BIDS" components (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) will be shipping on top of the Visual Studio 2010 shell alongside our Database Services bits. This means you will not need to use Visual Studio 2008 to open projects of these types any longer. In terms of deeper integration between the components (e.g. refactoring across database and reports for instance), this is being considered for future releases. Please let us know your most important integration points.

Thanks!

Mark Wilson-Thomas

Program Manager, SQL Server Developer Tools, Code-named "Juneau"

Head on over to http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/ for loads more great content on the WPF and Silverlight Designer, and give us your feedback on our Forum at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswpfdesigner !

See you all there!
Mark

@MarkPavWT

Hi Ben

If you couldn't make TechEd USA in New Orleans, you can see the talk we gave on tips and tricks for using the designer there online now:

http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/DEV313

Hope you find it interesting!

Mark 

Hi M Kirk

Sorry you're having trouble getting this to work.  

Whenever a XAML Window, Page or UserControl is loaded in design view (i.e. you can see the design pane with a preview of your design or the Intentionally Left Blank message), the Properties Window should be active if it is shown, and show the Property Marker for all properties in view for the selected piece of XAML (wherever your cursor is in the XAML file). 

If the page in question is a resource dictionary, like the one I showed in the video, you will need to use the same trick I did in the video to get the Properties Window to "light up" - show the split view, then click on the design pane (which doesn't show by default for RDs). Do this by:

1. Clicking on the split view button in the splitter bar which contains the Design and XAML Tabs (there are two split view buttons at the right hand end of the splitter bar, one vertical and one horizontal - vertical looks like a box with a vertical line through the middle, the horizontal the same with a horizontal line through the middle)

2. Clicking on the Grey "Intentionally Left Blank" view shown in the Design tab

This should "wake up" the Properties Window for the Resource Dictionary.

Once the Properties Window is "lit up", the property marker (the little widget to the right of the label for each property and to the left of its value) should allow you to click on it and see "Apply Resource" (along with Apply Databinding, Reset Value, and Go To Value Definition) in the drop down menu.

Click on Apply Resource in the Property Marker menu, to see the resource picker window.

If you do this for a Style, the picker will show the available styles.

Hope this helps!

If not, can you say whether you are not seeing the property marker, not seeing the picker when you click Apply Resource, or not seeing your resources in the picker once it appears?

Thanks

Mark

Hi Yvan and thanks for the kind words!

I "borrowed" the styles for those buttons from the Family.Show sample (which is actually a WPF sample app).

You can find it's code on Codeplex at http://familyshow.codeplex.com/ 

You might also find the Blacklight controls (http://blacklight.codeplex.com/ , showcased at http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/) useful for this sort of look and feel.

Mark

Thanks for the typo report all - yes, we spotted that during the making of the video; unfortunately it was too late for a small fit-and-finish bug to make the bar for holding up the release. We're sorry about that. We hope you think the feature is useful, and we will fix the typo in the next major release.

Thanks a lot for all of the interest in seeing more details of the designer features.  There's already a ton of useful material on using the Visual Studio 2010 designer over on our Cider Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/pages/learn.aspx - and we are adding more there too, so do keep checking back.

We'll also work with John and others to fill in the gaps and help you be productive - I'd love to hear from you all on the kinds of topics you'd like more detail on - the team monitors the WPF and Silverlight Designer forum, so post away over there.

For those who are coming along to TechEd USA in a few weeks time, you may be interested to hear that myself and Mark Boulter will be giving a session there which covers a number of useful Tips and Tricks for using the designer. We'll show the material I covered in this video plus a number of other topics, and there will be time for questions. We'll also have a full feedback session. Hope to see some of you in New Orleans!

Hi @dextroart

The features you are seeing are part of the design-time capabilities for the WPF version of the DataGrid control which I was using at that point in the demonstration.  Unfortunately these features are not yet in the Silverlight version of that control - I will pass along your feedback to the Silverlight team to let them know you'd like to see them in future releases.

Thanks

Mark

Update on this posting: there's a new video showing the features added to Beta 1 here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jaime+Rodriguez/Whats-new-in-the-WPF-and-Silverlight-Cider-Designer-in-VS2010-beta2/

Check it out and let us know what you think!

Mark

There are now updated videos about the WPF and Silverlight designer features available at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/WPF4Beta1DesignerForms/  and http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/WPF4Beta1DesignerStyling/ - check them out and let us know what you think!

Mark

Hi Jeni

The same Microsoft DataGrid control which you can find in the WPF Toolkit  for use on .NET 3.5 SP1 projects, is being incorporated into .NET 4.0.

There has been a Microsoft-built DataGrid control in Silverlight since Silverlight 2.0

Both will be on the default Toolbox for their respective project types in Visual Studio 2010.

Mark