Visual Basic How-Do-I Videos

How Do I: Create a Detail Edit Form for Tabular Data or Data in a Grid?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:41:33 -0800

This video shows how to edit data from a DataGridView in a details form which opens when one double clicks on the RowHeader of the DataGridView. Since both forms are bound to the same datasource one sees an instant update on both forms when the user decides to save the data and additional roundtrips to the database are avoided.

How Do I: Use LINQ to XML to Create Word Documents?

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:29:53 -0800

In this video, learn how to create Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents from data in a database using Visual Basic’s LINQ to XML and XML literals by writing to the Open XML format directly without using COM.

How Do I: Enhance Performance in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE when Editing VB Code

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:29:51 -0800

The Visual Studio 2010 IDE responds much more quickly when errors crop up in the editor. In this remarkable video, Microsoft Visual Studio Language Program Manager Avner Aharoni uses timers to demonstrate a 12 fold increase in performance.

How Do I: Use Autoimplemented Properties in Visual Basic?

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:29:49 -0800

In this video master Microsoft Program Manager Jon Aneja shows how to create and use a time saving feature in Visual Basic 10.0 called autoimplemented properties.

How Do I: Use Implicit Line Continuation in Visual Basic 10?

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:29:47 -0800

Microsoft Program Manager Jon Aneja shows how to use Implicit Line Continuation, a feature in Visual Basic 10.0 that frequently eliminates the need for developers to use the underscore character when continuing code on a new line.

How Do I: Build a WPF Master-Detail Data Entry Form Using Entity Framework?

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:08:06 +0530

Visual Studio developers will learn how to create a master-detail (or one-to-many) data entry form against the Entity Framework in WPF using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF using Entity Framework?

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:06:42 +0530

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.

How Do I: Exchange data between two forms in a Windows Forms application?

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:34:32 +0530

This video demonstrates a way to exchange data between two forms in a Windows Forms application. You will see how to use a public method and how to use a public property to exchange data. The examples were created using Visual Basic 2008 Express but also apply to older versions of Visual Studio.

How Do I: Notify one form in a Windows Forms Application that data in another form has changed?

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:24:15 +0530

This video demonstrates one way to notify a form when data in another form has changed. It will show how to create an event on one form and how to subscribe to this event on another. The examples were created using Visual Basic 2008 Express but also apply to older versions of Visual Studio. Even though this concept is demonstrated in Windows Forms the same pattern can be used in WPF.

How Do I: Create a report from a database?

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:43:31 +0530

Visual Studio developers will learn how to build a simple local report showing data from a database using the ReportViewer control in Visual Studio 2008.

How Do I: Get Started with Entity Framework in WPF Applications?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:26:11 +0530

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.

How Do I: Build a WPF Data Entry Form Using Entity Framework?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:27:15 +0530

Visual Studio developers will learn how to build a WPF data entry form to query, navigate, and edit data against the Entity Framework.

How Do I: Create a report from a business object?

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:52:59 -0700

Visual Studio developers will learn how to build a simple local report showing data returned by a business object using the ReportViewer control in Visual Studio 2008.

How Do I: Add Controls to a Worksheet at Run Time in an Application-Level Project?

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:33:22 -0800

Visual Studio Tools for Office developers will learn how to add host controls at run time in an application-level add-in by using Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

How Do I: Format Data in WPF Controls?

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:20:27 -0800

Visual Studio developers will learn how to format data in controls on WPF data entry forms using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

How Do I: Create Smart Tags in Word

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:27:45 -0800

Visual Studio Tools for Office developers will learn how to create custom smart tags with custom recognizers in Word by using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

How Do I: Create a Master-Detail Data Entry Form in WPF?

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:54:00 -0700

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.

How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF?

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:53:05 -0700

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.

How Do I: Add Smart Tags to Excel Workbooks?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:38:46 -0700

Learn how to add smart tags to Microsoft Office Excel by using a document-level customization or an application-level add-in.

How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:06:40 -0700

Visual Studio developers will learn how to hook up validation code and customize the display of errors on WPF controls using Visual Studio 2008.

How Do I: Create a Lookup Combobox in WPF?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:05:44 -0700

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.

How Do I: Display Data in a List in WPF?

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:07:49 -0700

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.

How Do I: Create a Simple Data Entry Form in WPF?

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:06:55 -0700

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.

How Do I: Email Unhandled Exceptions?

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:36:10 -0700

Visual Basic developers will learn how to handle unhandled exceptions in their applications and how to email that information with a screen-shot of the application’s state using the System.Net.Mail namespace.

How Do I: Use the DataRepeater Control?

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:36:08 -0700

Visual Basic Developers will learn how to work with the new DataRepeater found in the latest version on the Visual Basic Power Packs. The DataRepeater is more flexible than a grid and displays a scrollable container of any Windows Forms controls you place inside it for each row of your data.

How Do I Use DataSets in an N-Tier Application?

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:26:25 -0800

Many distributed architectures use DataSets on the client and the server when both are written with .NET. In this video, Visual Basic developers will learn how to use the new N-Tier DataSets in Visual Studio 2008 that makes this architectural scenario easy to accomplish.

How Do I Update Related Tables?

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:26:24 -0800

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to properly control updates, inserts and deletes in multi-user applications on forms that edit master-detail related data using the TableAdapterManager in Visual Studio 2008.

Simple Object Model and Query using LINQ to SQL

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:57:05 -0800

This video shows you how to create a basic LINQ to SQL application by mapping a simple Customer class to a database table and writing a LINQ query to return results as Customer objects.

How Do I Get Started with LINQ to XML?

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:34:15 -0700

Visual Basic developers will learn how to work with XML in Visual Basic using XML literals, embedded expressions and XML axis properties to create, query and transform XML documents easily.

Writing Queries in Visual Basic

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:30:01 -0800

LINQ makes query a first-class language construct in Visual Basic. This video shows you the Visual Basic 2008 language features that enable you to write LINQ query expressions.

Creating a Drawing Application by Using WPF

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:12:12 -0700

Visual Basic developers will learn how to create an Ink application in Windows Presentation Foundation using Visual Studio 2008.

How Do I Enable XML IntelliSense and Use XML Namespaces?

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:33:42 -0700

VVisual Basic developers will learn how to enable XML IntelliSense using schemas and how XML namespaces are used when querying and creating XML documents.

How Do I Create XML Documents from SQL Data?

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:32:21 -0700

Visual Basic developers will learn how to query their SQL Server database in order to easily create XML and HTML documents directly in the Visual Basic editor.

How Do I Create Excel Spreadsheets using LINQ to XML?

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:31:05 -0700

Visual Basic developers will learn how to query their SQL Server database in order to easily create Excel spreadsheets directly in the Visual Basic editor using LINQ to XML.

How Do I: LINQ over DataSets

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:12:45 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to write LINQ queries that work over DataSets by filtering and aggregating rows in a one-to-many relationship.

How Do I: Get Started with LINQ to SQL

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:11:26 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will be introduced to LINQ to SQL and the new O\R designer in Visual Studio 2008 by querying and updating a list of customers in the Northwind database.

How Do I: Deploy Hybrid Applications?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:17:45 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how deploy applications built with both Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET with the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 by creating a Visual Studio Setup and Deployment project.

How Do I: Build Interop User Controls?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:16:56 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to create .NET User Controls in Visual Studio that run on Visual Basic 6 forms using the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0.

How Do I: Build Interop Forms?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:16:06 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to create .NET Windows Forms in Visual Studio that run in Visual Basic 6 applications using the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0.

How Do I: Add Filter Support?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:15:18 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to enable filter support in their custom business object collections in order to use the BindingSource to filter business objects on Windows Forms.

How Do I: Add Sorting Support with Object Binding?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:20:39 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to enable sorting support within their business object collections in order to use the BindingSource to sort them on Windows Forms.

How Do I: Add Search Support with Object Binding?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:13:43 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to enable search support within their business object collections in order to use the BindingSource to search for business objects on Windows Forms.

How Do I: Do Simple Object Binding?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:12:58 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to create business objects that are associated in a one-to-many relationship and how to use BindingSources to navigate the relation.

How Do I: Create a One-To-Many Form using LINQ to SQL

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:12:08 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will see how to create a One-to-Many (Master-Detail) Data entry form using the O\R Designer and LINQ to SQL.

How Do I: Perform Group and Aggregate Queries?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:10:08 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to perform group and aggregate queries over business object collections and how to display them in related grids.

How Do I: Get Started with LINQ?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:09:27 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to write simple LINQ queries over objects by navigating files on the file system.

How Do I: Updating Related Tables

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:08:48 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to properly control updates, inserts and deletes in multi-user applications on forms that edit master-detail related data.

How Do I: Understand Data?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:08:11 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will explore how connecting data in a database to controls in Windows Forms applications really works by looking deeper into the DataSet, BindingSource and TableAdapter objects and walking through examples of using data in code.

How Do I: Build Reports?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:07:27 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to create reports in Windows Forms applications using Visual Studio and the ReportViewer control.

How Do I: Print Forms?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:06:04 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to print forms using the PrintForm Component, which is part of the Visual Basic Power Packs. The PrintForm component enables easy printing of Windows Forms.

How Do I: Deploy Local Data?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:05:24 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will learn how to deploy local SQL-Server Express database files using ClickOnce Technology.

How Do I: Modify the Database?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:04:29 -0700

Visual Basic beginners will learn how to add a new column to a SQL Server database table and make the necessary changes to the application in order to work with this new column using the Server Explorer and the DataSet Designer.

How Do I: Work with Local Data?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:03:53 -0700

Visual Basic beginners will learn how to work with local SQL-Server Express database files in Visual Basic projects using Visual Studio.

How Do I: Add Validation?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:03:18 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will see how to add field and row validation to an application in order to enforce business rules using the DataSet Designer and partial classes.

How Do I: Format Data in Controls?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:02:34 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will see how to format data in controls like the TextBox, MaskedTextBox and the DateTimePicker.

How Do I: Use Auto-Complete?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:01:54 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will see how to set up client side filtering and text editing using the Auto-Complete feature of the ComboBox and the TextBox.

How Do I: Filter Data on the Client?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:01:10 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will see how to set up data binding to achieve one-to-many filtering using a combo box which filters a grid. They will also see how to add a calculated column and how to format currency fields.

How Do I: Create Lookup Lists?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:00:34 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will see how to set up binding to a list of lookup values using a combo box as well as how to use a combo box in a grid.

How Do I: Create a Search Form?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:58:29 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will see how to create a search form with a parameterized query using the Search Criteria Builder in Visual Studio.

How Do I: Create a One-to-Many Data Entry Form?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:57:51 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will see how to create a One-to-Many (Master-Detail) Data entry form using the Data Sources Window and the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio.

How Do I: Connect to a Database?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:57:09 -0700

Visual Basic programmers will see how to create a Windows Forms application, connect to an existing database and how to define how data is retrieved and updated using the Data Sources Window and the Dataset Designer in Visual Studio.

How Do I: Create a Database?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:49:52 -0700

SQL Server beginners will see how to create a database through Visual Studio using the Server Explorer. They will see how to define tables, columns, and relationships and how to add stored procedures.