WPF Forms over Data Videos

WPF Forms over Data Videos
This how-to video series is dedicated to getting developers productive on areas of data-based Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Application development in Visual Studio 2008. For more information on WPF data-based development you can read articles here or visit http://www.windowsclient.net.

You will need: SQL Server or SQL Server Express and Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Basic 2008 Express
(Read this post if you are not running SQL Express and need to attach the sample databases to an instance of your sql server.)

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#1 How Do I: Create a Simple Data Entry Form in WPF?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to create a simple data entry form in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) using Visual Studio 2008 that allows navigation as well as edit, add, delete and save of the data.

Time: 24 minutes, 32 seconds

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#2 How Do I: Display Data in a List in WPF?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to select data from a database and display it in a WPF ListBox in a variety of ways using Visual Studio 2008.

Time: 11 minutes, 47 seconds

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#3 How Do I: Create Lookup Combobox in WPF?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to create a data entry form that binds data from a lookup table in a database to create a pick-list of values in a WPF ComboBox using Visual Studio 2008.

Time: 23 minutes, 43 seconds

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#4 How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to hook up validation code and customize the display of errors on WPF controls using Visual Studio 2008.

Time: 22 minutes, 20 seconds

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#5 How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

Time: 24 minutes, 58 seconds

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#6 How Do I: Create a Master-Detail Data Entry Form in WPF?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to create a master-detail (or one-to-many) data entry form in WPF using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

Time: 31 minutes, 03 seconds

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#7 How Do I: Format Data in WPF Controls?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to format data in controls on WPF data entry forms using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

Time: 11 minutes, 22 seconds

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And now with with Entity Framework as a data source...

These samples use an attached database called OMS. The create script is included in the DAL project folder in the code downloads. To install the database on your local sqlexpress instance, open a command prompt as an administrator and run the following:
>sqlcmd -S .\sqlexpress -i "C:\SampleLocation\CreateDatabaseOMS.sql"

Where SampleLocation is the path to the .sql script. For more information on sqlcmd, please see the MSDN Library.

Note to Express users: Please make sure you install SQL Server Express first!


#1 How Do I: Get Started with Entity Framework in WPF Applications?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to build a data access layer using Entity Framework in order to query and display the results in a WPF list box.

Time: 17 minutes 33 seconds

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#2 How Do I: Build a WPF Data Entry Form Using Entity Framework?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to build a WPF data entry form to query, navigate, and edit data against the Entity Framework.

Time: 24 minutes 42 seconds

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#3 How Do I: Create a WPF Lookup Combobox using Entity Framework?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to create a data entry form that binds data from a lookup table in a database to create a pick-list of values in a WPF Combobox using Entity Framework.

Time: 24 minutes 27 seconds

Watch Video | Visual Basic Code | C# Code

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#4 How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF using Entity Framework?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to hook up validation code on Entity Framework entities and customize the display of errors on WPF controls using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

Time: 29 minutes 24 seconds

Watch Video | Visual Basic Code | C# Code

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#5 How Do I: Build a WPF Master-Detail Data Entry Form Using Entity Framework?
Visual Studio developers will learn how to hook up validation code on Entity Framework entities and customize the display of errors on WPF controls using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

Time: 36 minutes 20 seconds

Watch Video | Visual Basic Code | C# Code

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And for more information on WPF data-based development you can read my articles here or visit http://www.windowsclient.net.