Robert Green - Demo of Visual Basic/Whidbey's data features | TheChannel9Team

gswitz
Geoff

Sensational! 5 Stars! My Access Programming days are numbered! Could you show how to build a flash filter like Access has on this data bound form? Example, I click on a particular bound text box and click a button and now I am only looking at records that contain the same value in that field... or a button that will automatically sort based on the field that last had the focus... I think this could be a bit tricky since the focus will move to the button when the user clicks it. How can I tell where the focus used to be?

Further, I know that you can create a data-adapter that binds to an object, but I haven't seen any good examples. Could someone make a video that binds say to the Facade or Data Layer or whatever in Duwamish? I would love to see it work in an application that isn't really designed to make it easy.

Blessings on you at Microsoft who have developed this easy binding that is so Access like. I've used Access for years to do this type of work, and this type of form control is the only real reason I continue to develop some of the apps in Access (well, ok, the quick and easy reporting, the MS Office integration, the easy of coding and the speed of the apps all play in as well). Ok, Access is a great tool, but maybe with this data binding easiness you have developed in .Net, I will develop desktop apps using .Net as well as web apps and services!

Best... g

reverand
Sup?

Funkin Phenominal. Visual Studio and the .Net Framework get better and better all the time.

Stepaniuk

Wow,

Databinding comes of age! That is too cool. I like how the video pointed out that there is still "code" to write, and your not done, but the basic gunk we need to write, like Bindings, are done for us. That is just too cool. And the smart IDE helps so much.

THANK YOU!!!!

Chris.

rasx
Programmer/Analyst III, Emperor of String.Empty

Great---and What About Code Gen'?

Very much like the old Access stuff which is great! Would like to have seen a few seconds of the code behind the form to peek at any changes made in code generation for the Whidbey timeframe.

Steve411

I have tried what you did in the video. I got an error, while testing the connection it works fine, but when I click the OK button it does not..

Could Not Connect to the database
This function is not enabled in Visual Basic.NET Express

^^ Something like that...
My express project had something to do with a database.. And now its' being coded days are over! Sad

Rhelic
Drink up, life is short

Very nice, this basically appears to be what Infopath 2003 does except you can add functionality. Also VS2005 has features Infopath 2k3 lacks like the text/control line-up anchors.

It's features like these that make me want to sleep for 1.5yrs so I can wake up and use a better VS.

PS: Be carefull what you wish for!

Jeremy W
that blogging guy

Okay, I read all the posts here going "okay, whatever, developers getting excited about nothing again".

Then I got into when he dragged the Details on the form and literally fell off my chair and yelled out loud!!!

I love this. Totally blogged. I also love the snapping in the Express products. Forgot to blog that. GREAT reminder Wink