Drag-Drop Data Binding Comes to WPF in Visual Studio 2010

Posted By: Beth Massi | Nov 26th, 2008 @ 9:41 AM | 68,298 Views | 8 Comments

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In this interview Milind Lele, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team, shows us one of the new RAD improvements coming to WPF in Visual Studio 2010 -- Drag-Drop Data Binding.

Also check out his blog post on this topic for more information. His team is looking for feedback on this feature so visit the Visual Studio 2010 CTP page to download the CTP and visit the feedback forums.

Enjoy, -Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Tags: VB Team, Visual Studio, WPF

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spivonious

Nice! It looks like WPF will actually be something that's easy to use coming from a WinForms/RAD background. Thanks for the video, Beth!

mcannistra
Mario Cannistrà

Nice video ! Thank you.

I tried to embed this video in a post on my company's internal blog using the html you supply from the video player UI, but I got a problem.

The preview image is displayed but the white play triangle is not showing up and there is no way to start the video clicking on the preview.

Should I add something else to embed your videos for my team to watch ?

Thank you,
Mario

PS: the blog is based on blogengine.net

vesuvius
War and Peace

I think what'd been cooler is having the designer itself written in WPF, and not the 5-10 years old winforms list view. Karl Shiftlet has his new power toys, that show a more mature way to develop WPF applications, and the support you need when editing controls.

Don't get me wrong, the tried and tested stuff works, but WPF requires extra configuration that is missing in the old winforms designers.

I also don't feel excited about this as much as thinking, its about time that feature was available!

Also Milind, the Entity Framework seems to be the data access method of choice for WPF, will any work be done to allow the EF to be targeted design time by winforms applications?