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Re: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2

rogreen — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:54:00 GMT

@mjjj:Glad you figured it out. Now we both know where it is!

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Re: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2

rogreen — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:18:26 GMT

@mjjj:Blend ships with VS 2012 Pro and above, so it should have been installed when you installed Visual Studio. Are you not seeing it?

There are some enhancements to Blend in Update 2. See Blend Insider for more info on that.

Robert

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Re: Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps

rogreen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:40:16 GMT

@silvioribeiro:Hi Silvio.

Bill Burrows has an example of using SQLite with VB. He has a VB front end that talks to the C# code in the SQLite-net NuGet package. Looks pretty straightforward.

Robert

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Re: Building Great Windows 8 Apps

rogreen — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:58:15 GMT

@Naqash Ahmed: A good place to start is the Windows Developer Center. In addition, there are some very good series on Channel 9. Check out Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with C# and Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with JavaScript.

Robert

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Re: Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps

rogreen — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:17:59 GMT

@jibyz: If you add a new XAML page using the Basic Page item template, you should see that dialog. If you add a new XAML page using the Blank Page item template, you won't see that. So make sure you use the Basic Page template. And let me know if that doesn't work.

Robert

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Re: Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps

rogreen — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:21:08 GMT

@jibyz: You can look at my blog post, where I show how to build this app from scratch. You can also look at Create your first Windows Store app walkthroughs on MSDN. They have them for XAML and for JavaScript apps.

Robert

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Re: Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps

rogreen — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:27:11 GMT

@Devendra: Did you follow the Building the Sample instructions? You need to download the SQLite for Windows Runtime extension for Visual Studio.

And you can safely ignore the prompt for Team Foundation Server.

Robert

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Re: Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps

rogreen — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:07:57 GMT

@Mustansir: I just uploaded a new version of this. Download that and follow the Building the Sample instructions. Let me know if that doesn't work.

Robert

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Re: Using Azure Mobile Services in a Windows 8 App

rogreen — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:42:20 GMT

Did you create a new Azure Mobile Service first? Did you add a Customer table and a Project table on the Azure portal? Did you replace the code in App.xaml.cs that connects to the service? Is the call to ResetData uncommented in the OnLaunched method in App.xaml.cs?

If the answer to those is yes, comment out ResetData and run the app again. Does data appear this time?

Robert

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Re: Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps

rogreen — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:59:01 GMT

I just uploaded the sample to the MSDN Code Samples. You will have to add the references and get the SQLite-net package, but you won't have to write any of the code.

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Re: Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps

rogreen — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:19:38 GMT

@Lex: You will need to build 3 different app packages, one for each architecture and submit each of them to the Store. You don't need different code bases, unless you have architecture specific code, so you should be able to fully test one architecture and then smoke test the others.

Robert

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Re: Designing Metro Style Line of Business Apps

rogreen — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:36:28 GMT

@boolean1:I agree. Those would be excellent features to add to a future version of the app. I am planning on it.

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Re: Designing Metro Style Line of Business Apps

rogreen — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:28:18 GMT

@Horatio Nunez:Yes. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/04/25/deploying-metro-style-apps-to-businesses.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/04/19/managing-quot-byo-quot-pcs-in-the-enterprise-including-woa.aspx for more information on this.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: What's New in the Windows Azure June 2012 Release

rogreen — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:27:21 GMT

@LeeCampbell:Yes, you are correct. Thanks for pointing that out Lee.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: SlowCheetah

rogreen — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:35:24 GMT

@Ste:We have now fixed this. Thanks for pointing it out.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: SlowCheetah

rogreen — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:19:14 GMT

@Ste:Should have been yes. Sorry about that.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate

rogreen — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:18:45 GMT

@J C:Look for it to be published on the Visual Studio Gallery in the next week or so.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate

rogreen — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:57:06 GMT

@jlomax:There are links to the ISO images on the download page for each version. For example, http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29917 is the download page for Ultimate. Scroll down to the step 3 of the Instructions where you will find the download link for the ISO image.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with JavaScript

rogreen — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:22:49 GMT

@thealgabban:No one is suggesting that you throw away any of your skills. If you want to build Metro style apps for Windows 8, you can choose whether you want to use XAML with C#/VB/C++ or use JavaScript with HTML/CSS. This is your choice and they are both good choices. If you don't want to build Metro style apps, you can continue to build the same types of apps you have been building, whether they are Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF or Silverlight. And you can do this both on Windows 7 and on Windows 8.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1

rogreen — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:18:45 GMT

@Chen: If you use Code First without Migrations, you will see this because EF changes the database to match the class structure you create. But if you use Database First that doesn't happen. EF creates the class structure to match the database. Check out Code First Migrations in the Part 2 video and at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/02/09/ef-4-3-code-based-migrations-walkthrough.aspx.

Let me know if you have additional concerns or questions.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1

rogreen — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:15:55 GMT

@Rafael: Entity Framework works with any database if the database maker supplies a provider. Oracle has a provider that supports Entity Framework 4.1 and 4.2, although it does not support Code First.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with JavaScript

rogreen — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:48:45 GMT

@Jules: You say VS 11 is dreary. Do you mean Visual Studio in general? If so, wouldn't that also be true if you are building XAML apps, as well as non Metro style applications? The IDE is pretty much the same regardless of what type of application you are building.

Or are you saying that the problem is not Visual Studio, but the actual apps you build? I agree that the various templates don't have a lot of color in them. But you can use Blend to create good looking apps. Check out this week's episode (coming Wednesday) on using Blend to create good looking HTML based Metro style apps. And next week's episode will show using Blend with XAML based Metro style apps.

Robert

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Simplification of the Visual Studio 11 Development Environment

rogreen — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:42:15 GMT

@Pritesh Ostwal:Preview properties without going to the Properties window? What would you want that to look like? How would it work?

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Simplification of the Visual Studio 11 Development Environment

rogreen — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:09:07 GMT

We value all of your feedback. Beyond filing a Connect bug, there are two channels that we are monitoring regularly to improve the product. Any feedback, both positive or negative, is welcome on the Visual Studio blog or on Visual Studio Uservoice. Thanks!

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Re: Visual Studio Toolbox: Dependency Graphs

rogreen — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:37:06 GMT

@Remi:Yes!

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