Entries tagged with windows forms - Channel 9

MSDN Video 2008

Elisa García — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:12:00 GMT

MSDN Video 2008 es una iniciativa de MSDN España con la que puedes aprender las últimas tecnologías de .NET aplicadas a un desarrollo real de una implementación ficticia de un videoclub.

Su funcionalidad, aunque básica, es muy común con otras aplicaciones empresariales:

Gestión de usuarios (socios, administradores) y permisos.
Gestión de artículos (catálogo de películas)
Gestión de lógica de negocio (stocks, ventas y alquileres)

Utiliza las últimas tecnologías aplicadas de forma integrada en la misma solución:

LINQ: acceso a datos y la creación de entidades.
Windows Communication Foundation: exposición de los servicios.
ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, Silverlight: creación del sitio web del videoclub.
Windows Forms 3.5: herramienta de administración para gerentes de tienda.
Windows Presentation Foundation: cajero automático en tiendas.

En este video, presentamos un paseo por la funcionalidad de la aplicación.

Puedes encontrar la aplicación completa en Desarrolla Con MSDN.

Client Application Services with Visual Studio 2008

Daniel Moth — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:09:25 GMT

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :-)

Introduction: In this 18' video you will learn from scratch how to take advantage of .NET Client Application Services. As usual, the code and links to the documentation are available from my blog.

Video download: For this video, click on the image/button to play the video OR right click and Save As on the same location.

The New DataRepeater Control in the Latest Power Packs Release

Beth Massi — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:41:46 GMT

In this interview John Hart, QA Lead on the Visual Basic Team, shows us the new DataRepeater control that has just been added to the latest Power Packs release on the Visual Basic Developer Center. Power Packs are free Add-Ins, Controls, Components, and Tools for you to use with Visual Basic to make developing applications even easier.

The new DataRepeater control allows you use standard Windows Forms controls to display rows of your data in a scrollable container giving you more flexibility and customization than standard grid controls.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

File Dialog Additions in v2.0 SP1

Daniel Moth — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:27:00 GMT

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :-)

Introduction: With v3.5 of the .NET Framework, Microsoft also released Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework v2.0. In this video you can see what is new in SP1 for the File Dialogs in Windows Forms.

Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here.

Use WPF from Windows Forms projects in Visual Studio 2008

Daniel Moth — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:32:00 GMT

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :-)

Introduction: Windows Forms developers do not need to throw away their code and start from scratch in Windows Presentation Foundation, simply to get a stunning UI for a particular use case of their application. In this 17' video I demonstrate how to get started with interop between WPF and WinForms applications. For more please visit my blog post here.

Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here.

Allan Stratton: Nuance Imaging and Speech - Part 1

Charles — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:08:31 GMT

Nuance Communications Director of OEM Integration chats with us about Nuance’s imaging and speech recognition solutions.

Here, Allan discusses the development & prototyping processes of speech and scanning applications utilizing VS 2005,WPF, SDKs and the joy of coding in various languages. Allan also details some of the learnings that arose around Vista integration with Dragon, a leading dictation application; as well as some of the opportunities they envision from Vista features such as xps and how it will enhance the user experience for document management.

Nuance creates some incredibly innovative technologies. Check this out.

This is part one in a two part series. See part two part 1, I used the Visual Studio Orcas Sync Designer to configure and synchronize 3 lookup tables to be cached locally in SQL Server Compact Edition using the Sync Services for ADO.NET CTP.

In part 2, I take the cached lookup tables and split up the client and server sync components using WCF to glue them together.
For more info about our Occasionally Connected Services scenarios, and Sync Services for ADO.NET, you can use the following links:
My blog
Sync Services CTP:
Sync Services Forum

Visual Studio Orcas Sync Designer for Caching Data in SQL Server Compact Edition

SteveLasker — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:26:00 GMT

In this screen cast I demonstrates the new Sync Designer for caching data locally in SQL Server Compact Edition. This is part 1 showing the basics. In part 2 I'll demonstrate how to split the code from client to server using WCF to synchronize data across internet protocols.

For more info about our Occasionally Connected Services scenarios, and Sync Services for ADO.NET, you can use the following links:
My blog
Sync Services CTP:
Sync Services Forum

British Telecom's .NET Mobile SDK - Making it simple to code communication

Charles — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:36:11 GMT

Meet Nigel Pepper and Robbie Clutton, software engineers working for British Telecom. They and team have built an excellent .NET SDK for mobile development (Conference call, SMS, Etc..). They provide a number of services that you can use in your mobile applications to help you innovate.

The SDK is an exposure of 6 web services: Sms messaging, Conference calling, Voice calling (2 person telephone call), IM and presence, Profile/information store, and a ‘white label’ authentication service. It is still in beta but are Nigel, Robbie et al are working towards promoting the services and exposure to production.

They have a web site which contains the latest details and is lovingly maintained by Nigel, Robbie et al. Take a look at http://sdk.bt.com/

New Vista GUI Stuff For Devs

Rory — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:00:31 GMT

I recently had the chance to meet up with Kam VedBrat, lead program manager of Expression Web.

Before working on Expression Web, though, Kam made his way through quite a few other divisions here at The Firm.

Along the way, he picked up quite a bit of knowledge about the new bits driving Vista GUIs.

Kam talks about how to take advantage of some of the new features, like Glass. Glass is a feature that has actually been a little mystery to devs, and Kam clears it all up with a simple demo.

We also get a nice explanation on how composition works under the Desktop Window Manager.

Basically, even though Vista looks more or less like good old Windows, a lot has changed, and Kam has the inside story.

He even clears up the answer to a question that's been troubling devs for a while now: What is Aero? We've all heard a lot about it, and in many different contexts. As a result, there's some confusion about what it really is.

Is it an API? Is it a spec? Is it an experience?

Watch and learn, my friends :)

Dan Johansson - Industrial & Financial Systems (IFS)

Charles — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:59:07 GMT

Here, we talk to Dan Johansson, CIO of the Swedish company Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS). We have a candid conversation about the problems his company solves and the technologies they use. We also get some good, honest feedback from him regarding our software.

This is the first episode in the customer-oriented Channel 9 show Inside Out where we focus on the people who use some of our technologies to innovate and solve problems in the real world.

Shanku Niyogi talks various presentation technologies with Masami Suzuki

c9Japan — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:13:11 GMT

This video is based on English conversation.

* 日本語の字幕は、2006年10月頃提供の予定です

マイクロソフト株式会社の鈴木さんとShanku Niyogi氏の対談を撮影しました。
2006/9/1 夕方撮影。12分19秒のビデオです。

Shanku Niyogi came to Japan to attend many activities for TechEd 2006 Yokohama.
He talks about various presentation technologies with Masami Suzuki.
This video was shoot at meeting room of TechEd 2006 Yokohama on September 1, 2006.

Video duration : 00:12:19

The Scripps Research Institute’s Collaborative Molecular Environment

Charles — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:57:35 GMT

Collaboration is important to most organizations but it is particularly important to the scientists around the world who are researching the complex structures of the SARS virus and cancer cells. When doing their work and planning future work it is vital that they are able to see, benefit from, and not duplicate the work of others. To tackle these collaboration needs TSRI has partnered with Interknowlogy to build a revolutionary data sharing and visualization application they call the Collaboration Molecular Environment (C-ME). C-ME uses WPF, WinForms, and Office 2007 to front end Sharepoint 2007 . In this video Dr. Peter Kuhn from TSRI and Tim Huckaby from Interknowlogy show us a demo of C-ME, talk about its origins and the impact it is having on how they operate.

Learn more about the technologies behind this application Moustafa has put together this screencast to show off how you can use the Rules Engine capabilities contained in Windows Workflow Foundation outside of a workflow, and leverage it to drive the business logic of a Windows Forms application. Check out the video, and if you're interested in more, then head on over to our community site where you can download the sample .

This is the article that Moustafa mentions that introduces the Rules Engine available at MSDN.

For more information on Windows Workflow Foundation, you can check the following resources:

ADO.net Programming options for SQL Server Everywhere

SteveLasker — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:05:06 GMT

A screencast overview of the different programming options for SQL Server Everywhere including an updateable resultset (SqlCeResultSet)

Steve

Deployment Options for SQL Server Everywhere

SteveLasker — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:58:37 GMT

Another screencast in the SQL Server Everywhere series demonstrating the deployment options for SQL Server Everywhere. In this screencast I talk about the Admin, Central, MSI deployment model with the assistance of ClickOnce bootstrappers as well as the private deployment model.

More info on SQL Server Everywhere can be found on my blog at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/SteveLasker
or the SQL Server Everywhere team blog a
http://blogs.msdn.com/SQLServerEverywhere

The CTP of SQL Server Everywhere can be found at:
http://www.Microsoft.com/SQL/Everywhere

Steve

Video of installing the SQL Server Compact Edition

SteveLasker — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:49:29 GMT

To get a feel for what it means to install the SQL Server Compact Edition here's a screencast that describes the installation experience and the minimal impact to your machine. This covers the download from: SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition CTP Download

The screencast also covers how to install the ClickOnce bootstrapper package within Visual Studio to cleanly enable deploying SQL Server Everywhere with ClickOnce.

For info on SQL Server Compact Edition, there's been a healthy discussion on my blog a

http://blogs.msdn.com/stevelasker/archive/2006/04/10/SqlEverywhereInfo.aspx

Steve

Looking at the Permissions Calculator

trobbins — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:36:55 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 has many new added security features to help you the developer create a secure applications with little effort. The permissions calculator coupled with the ability to emulate security zones found in code access security allow you to test your applications in a simulated environment before you deploy. In this screencast, Duane takes a look at how this can be done.

Easy Multithreaded Programming Using BackgroundWorker

keydet — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:54:22 GMT

Here's a quote from Chapter 6: Using Multiple Threads of the Smart Client Architecture and Design Guide:

"To maximize the responsiveness of your smart client applications, you need to carefully consider how and when to use multiple threads. Threads can significantly improve the usability and performance of your application, but they require very careful consideration when you determine how they will interact with the user interface."

.NET Framework 2.0 and the BackgroundWorker component to the rescue! Marc Schweigert, Federal Developer Evangelist, shows you how easy it is to build a responsive multithreaded Smart Client application with Windows Forms 2.0 & the BackgroundWorker component.

Resources:

Federal Developer Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/

BackgroundWorker Component Overview:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8xs8549b.aspx

Looking at the Report Viewer Control

trobbins — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:30:37 GMT

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 includes a report designer functionality and a new set of ReportViewer controls that can be used to build and display reports within custom applications. Reports may contain tabular, aggregated, and even multidimensional data. The ReportViewer controls are used to process and display these reports within applications. There are two versions of the controls. The ReportViewer Web server control is used to host reports in ASP.NET projects. The ReportViewer Windows Forms control is used to host reports in Windows application processing.

Both controls can be configured to run in either local or remote processing mode. How you configure the processing mode effects everything about the reports from design to deployment.

Local processing mode refers to report processing that is performed by the ReportViewer control within the client application. All report processing is performed as a local process using data that your application provides. To create the reports used in local processing mode, you use the Report project template in Visual Studio
Remote processing mode refers to report processing that is performed by a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report server. In remote processing mode, the ReportViewer control is used as a viewer to display a predefined report that is already published on a Reporting Services report server. All processing from data retrieval to report rendering is performed on the report server.

In this Screencast Thom takes a look at how this control can be used to host both server reports and local reports

Mark Boulter and Brian Pepin - Sneak peak at Cider (visual designer for Orcas, future version of Vis

scobleizer — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:54:42 GMT

Mark Boulter, PM and technical lead, and Brian Pepin, development lead, talk to us about Cider, a future version of the visual designer that'll ship in Orcas, future version of Visual Studio.

They demo it too!

Looking at Code Coverage

trobbins — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:09:07 GMT

In this video, Thom Robbins takes a look at the new Code Coverage features. In case you don’t know code coverage is used to measure test effectiveness on a line by line basis within an application. Code Coverage information is gathered when application artifacts have been instrumented and during a test run are loaded into memory.

Rob Barker - Why Rob cares about SmartClients?

scobleizer — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 01:21:04 GMT

Why does Rob Barker care about SmartClients? Listen in and hear why.

He has a demo of a cool Web site that he turns into a SmartClient at about 13:30. Translation, unless you're a geek skip ahead to the fun part. You can do that by opening up the video in the player.

Mark Boulter - talking about Smart Clients and Windows Forms, Part II

The Channel 9 Team — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 02:57:05 GMT

Mark Boulter continues his conversation about Smart Clients and Windows Forms today. If you're interested in .NET client development, you'll find this conversation with Charles Torre, of Channel 9, interesting.

Mark Boulter - talking about Smart Clients and Windows Forms

The Channel 9 Team — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:05:53 GMT

Mark Boulter is a technical lead on the .NET team. Windows Forms. Client. Translation: he knows more about Windows Forms and how .NET client apps work than almost anyone else.

We spent an hour talking with him about client-development trends. Here's the first part of the interview.