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New Post: FAQs, HOW TOs etc.

ShamilS — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:38:46 GMT

Hi Borge,

I have accepted your request to join dba-VB on MS Live.

You should be able to access dba-VB SkyDrive and other areas now.

Have nice weekend.

Shamil

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From: borge

Hi Shamil,

Thanks for the temporary link...

I do have an MS Live account... but apparently, you also need to be accepted into the dba-VB group... as a visitor you cannot access the .wmv file ....

borge

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New Post: FAQs, HOW TOs etc.

borge — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:03:08 GMT

Hi Shamil,

Thanks for the temporary link...

I do have an MS Live account... but apparently, you also need to be accepted into the dba-VB group... as a visitor you cannot access the .wmv file ....

borge

New Post: FAQs, HOW TOs etc.

ShamilS — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:10:53 GMT

Hi Borge,

As I noted in my message: "You'll need MS Live account to get to this file".

But I have made it temporarily available to download from my web site here:

http://shamils-4.hosting.parking.ru/temp/hw.zip (11.3MB)

You can go there, get it downloaded, unzip and watch using MS Windows Media Player.

Thank you

New Post: FAQs, HOW TOs etc.

borge — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:03:59 GMT

Clicking through you only get:

That item seems to be missing

Someone may have deleted or moved the item, or you may not have permission to view it. If you have questions about this item, contact the person who created it.

New Post: Northwind.NET v.1.0 Implementation Timing

ShamilS — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:39:19 GMT

This is just MS Excel – manual editing + copy & paste.

P.S. Sorry, first I used my mail client to reply to Arthur's note - and surprisingly for me my message was posted here by Codeplex mail server. Good feature. Let's use it for our public conversations, which can be kept both in our e-mail boxes, and here on CodePlex. (I have got deleted my first reply to Arthur from here as it has some info targeted to our team members' eyes only)

New Post: Northwind.NET v.1.0 Implementation Timing

Artful2009 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:19:15 GMT

How did you create such a pretty report?

A.

New Post: Northwind.NET v.1.0 Implementation Timing

ShamilS — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:52:57 GMT

Hi All,

I have just got opportunity to finish the subject project implementation "timesheet" table - here it is:

*Northwind.NET v.1.0 "Timesheet"*

NN	Form/Report	Planned Time (h)	Time spent (h)	Time left (h)
1	Categories	2	0,25	1,75
2	Products List	1	0,25	0,75
3	Main Switchboard	2	1	1
4	Customer Orders	2	1,75	0,25
5	Customer Orders Subform 1	1	0	1
6	Customer Orders Subform 2	1	0	1
7	Customers	2	0,5	1,5
8	Employees	3	5	-2
9	Products	2	0,5	1,5
10	Orders	3	5	-2
11	Orders Subform	1	0	1
12	StartUp	1	1	0
13	Customers Labels Dialog	1	0,4	0,6
14	Sales By Year Dialog	1	0,4	0,6
15	Sales Reports Dialog	2	1	1
16	Suppliers	2	5	-3
17	Alphabetical List of Products	2	2	0
18	Products By Category	1	2	-1
19	Customer Phone List	3	5	-2
20	Quaterly Orders	2	2	0
21	Quaterly Orders Subform	2	2	0
22	Sales Totals by Amount	2	3	-1
23	Catalog	5	3,5	1,5
24	Catalog Subreport	1	0	1
25	Customers Labels	2	0,75	1,25
26	Summary of Sales by Quarter	2	1,5	0,5
27	Summary Of Sales by Year	2	0,5	1,5
28	Invoice	5	6	-1
29	Sales Analysis	5	5	0
30	Sales Analysis SubForm1	5	0	5
31	Sales Analysis Subform2	5	0	5
32	Employee Sales by Country	5	5	0
33	Sales by Category	3	2	1
33	Sales by Category Subreport	1	0	1
34	Sales by Year	5	2	3
35	Sales by Year Subreport	2	0	2

TOTALS:		87	64,3	22,7

NN	Activity	Planned Time (h)	Time spent (h)	Time left (h)
1	Preparing Project Infrustructure + support/sample coding/tutoring (approx.)	---	20	---
2	SCRUMMaster tasks (approx.)	---	20	---

			40

	GRAND TOTAL:		104,3

Thank you.

New Post: ADO.NET Entity Framework - to use or not?

ShamilS — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:42:53 GMT

Ihave spent some time today investigating ADO.NET Entity Framework, and reading articles and opinions on its usage, current status (.NET 3.5 SP1) and the future .NET 4.0/VS 2010: as far as I see this is a promising technology but it looks like it is not yet ready for enterpise level development. And what is your opinion?

ADO.NET Entity Framework
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADO.NET_Entity_Framework

Stored Procedure Mapping
http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/03/26/stored-procedure-mapping.aspx

Using stored procedures with ADO.NET entity framework
http://blogs.infosupport.com/blogs/willemm/archive/2007/09/11/Using-stored-procedures-with-ADO.NET-entity-framework.aspx

ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence
http://efvote.wufoo.com/forms/ado-net-entity-framework-vote-of-no-confidence/
<<<
When the Entity Framework is used on projects staffed with more than one developer, merge conflicts occur whenever two developers make changes to an entity diagram. Since the diagram tool is the default and intended tool for making changes to an entity model, the frequency of this problem is will result in an unacceptable level of friction in team member interaction and change integration.
>>>

http://forums.asp.net/t/1363046.aspx
<<<
So in short, EF as it stands now is worthless for real life use.

I guess I've wasted several weeks of my life rewriting my code for a technology that should have been released as incomplete and only in beta.
>>>

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/12/02/migrating-from-linq-to-sql-to-the-entity-framework-stored-procedures-for-data-retrieval.aspx
<<<
NO ONE CARES. EF is an overcomplicated piece of junk compared to L2S. If we're going to migrate our L2S DAL over to something else, it won't be Entity Framework (which you'll probably abandon next year in favor of something else anyway!)
>>>
<<<
Linq to Entities simply does NOT work in a real world environment.

Don't bother trying to use it with stored procedures that return nothing.

I have to wait for VS2010 to get something that will supposedly work?

THIS was supposed to work. You told us to move from linq to sql to linq to entities and I did all the conversions for a piece of junk that has put me weeks behind in development and still doesn't work!

I'm ready to give up and simply use an ORM that actually works and actually has support and working examples.

Why release a technology and tell us to use it when you know it is crippled?!!!!
>>>

New Post: MDI Interface code basis

gustav — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:16:45 GMT

Basic code for the MDI Parent window for the next release has been uploaded in a special folder:

\TreeViewMenu

Please read the in-line comments twice.

Features missing and work to do:

A more clever method to call the different child forms to avoid the duplicated code for each form.
Option to adjust the position of the vertical separator with the mouse as is possible in a normal split form.

Issues to be solved:

Positioning of child forms. Mostly handled, but for some special situations it may fail. This may happen when child forms are minimized or maximized.

Main features (mostly solved by the initial code) to be fullfilled for the MDI form to be approved:

A new child form is positioned at position zero if no child form is present, and at position i + 1 where i is the highest position of any present child form.
Limit the count of child forms in one layer.
Set colour of background.
Avoid beep when selecting a node by a key entry.

/gustav

New Post: Northwind.NET v.1.0 Development Techniques

ShamilS — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:04:01 GMT

Programming

Programming: Global (Application Level) Error Handler (Program.cs)

ADO.NET DataSets

ADO.NET Datasets: MS SQL Backend Data Model (DataModelDataSet.xsd)
ADO.NET Datasets: Using .FindById Method (OrdersForm.cs)
ADO.NET Datasets: Parameterized DataSet (QuarterlyOrderForm.cs)

WinForms

WinForms: ADO.NET Dataset Binding (CustomersForm.cs)
WinForms: BindingSource Control (SuppliersForm.cs)
WinForms: BindingNavigator Control (ProductsForm.cs)
WinForms: Switchboard form (MainSwitchboardForm.cs)
WinForms: Start-Up Form/Splash Screen (StartUpForm.cs)
WinForms: Parent/Child Form (Orders.cs)
WinForms: Tab Control (EmployeesForm.cs)
WinForms: Image Control - Bound Picture From Database Table (CategoriesForm.cs)
WinForms: Image Control - Displaying Picture From Graphical File (EmployeesForm.cs)
WinForms: Bound ComboBox ( CustomersForm.cs)
WinForms: Bound ComboBox in DataGridView Control (CategoryProductsForm.cs)
WinForms: One Event Procedure Used For Multiple Controls (CustomersPhoneList.cs)
WinForms: BindingSource Control Dynamic Filtering (CustomersPhoneList.cs)
WinForms: DataGridView RowEnter Event Processing (CustomerOrdersForm.cs)
WinForms: DataGridView DataBound Event Processing (QuarterlyOrderForm.cs)
WinForms: DataGridView Cell Formatting - Currency, Percent (QuarterlyOrderForm.cs)
WinForms: DataGridView Cell Formatting - Number (OrdersForm.cs)
WinForms: GroupBox To Handle A RadioButtons Set (SalesReportsDialog)

MS ReportViewer Control

MS ReportViewer Control: Using Embedded Image (Catalog.rdlc)
MS ReportViewer Control: Using An Image From Database Table (Catalog.rdlc)
MS ReportViewer Control: Grouping And Sorting Within Table Control (Catalog.rdlc)
MS ReportViewer Control: Using Multiple Table Controls In One Report (Catalog.rdlc)
MS ReportViewer Control: Merging Cells in Table Control (Catalog.rdlc)
MS ReportViewer Control: Group Subtotals (ProductByCategoryReport.rdlc< /li>
MS ReportViewer Control: Using List Control for Multi-Column Reports ()
MS ReportViewer Control: Color Formatting Of Table Control Cells (ShippersReport.cs)
MS ReportViewer Control: Advanced Table Control Formatting and Grouping (InvoiceReport.cs)
MS ReportViewer Control: Concatenating Bound Fields' Values and String Literals (Summary Of Sales BY year )
MS ReportViewer Control: Chart Control (SalesByCategoryreport.rdlc)
MS ReportViewer Control: Sequentail Numbering Of Detail Section Rows (SalesTotalsByAmolunt.rdlc)
MS ReportViewer Control: Formatting Table Row Borders (SalesTotalsByAmount.rdlc)
MS ReportViewer Control: Setting Report Parameters' Values On RunTime Using C# Code (SalesByYearReport.cs)
MS ReportViewer Control: Hide/Unhide Report Sections Depending On Report Parameters Values (SalesByYearReport.cs)
MS ReportViewer Control: Using Matrix Control (SalesAnalysisReport)
MS ReportViewer Control: Using Embedded Code (Employee Sales By country report)
MS ReportViewer Control: Page X of Y - Report Viewer Control Global Constants (AlphabericalListofProductsreport.rdlc< /a>)
MS ReportViewer Control: Nested Grouping (Employes Sales By Country Report)

T-SQL

T-SQL: Using View As DataSource For MS ReportViewer Control Report (AlphabeticalListOfProductsRepor.rdlc< /a>, vw_AlphabeticalListOfProductsReport.sql)
T-SQL: Using Stored Procedure As DataSource For MS ReportViewer Control Report (SalesTotalsByAmountReport.rdlc , sp_SalesTotalsByAmountReport.sql)
T-SQL: Case T-SQL Statement in Stored Procedure (SummaryOfSalesByQuarterReport.rdl c , SummaryOfSalesByQuarterReport.sql)
T-SQL: Table Valued Function (udf_OrderSubTotals.sql , sp_SalesByYear.sql , SalesByYearReport.rdlc)

New Post: Issue On Decoupling DataSets From WinForms FE Project

ShamilS — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:07:42 GMT

Issue on decoupling DataSets from WinForms FE project
(DataSets from referenced classlib can't be used for RAD design of WinForms?)

1. Create new project Northwind.NET.FE.Datasets

2. Set reference to new Northwind.NET.FE.Datasets from
Northwind.NET.FE project

3. Create setting in Northwind.NET.FE.Datasets

NorthwindNETConnectionString =
Data Source=HAMBURG\SQL2005;Initial Catalog=NorthwindNET;Integrated Security=True

4. Create wrapper class Northwind_NET_FE_Properties

namespace Northwind.NET.FE.Properties
{
    internal sealed partial class Settings
    {
        public static Northwind.NET.FE.Datasets.Properties.Settings Default
        {
            get
            {
                return Northwind.NET.FE.Datasets.Properties.Settings.Default;
            }
        }
    }
}

6. Move all items from Datasets folder to
Northwind.NET.FE.Datasets project

7. Remove settings NorthwindNETConnectionString from Northwind.NET.FE

8. Compile, build, run - it works OK but... - see the following Side-effect/Issue

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Side-effect/Issue: Northwind.NET.FE will not have any datasets in its "Data Sources" window IOW designing WinForms RAD way by using "drag&drop" of items from "Data Sources" window will be now unavailable in Northwind.NET.FE...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

New Post: Northwind.NET Developer's Checklist

ShamilS — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:44:10 GMT

Sites:

1. dba-VB

http://dba-vb.groups.live.com/?sa=794256790

Keeps the list of people interested in Northwind.NET project both developers and "lurkers" as well as the list of favorites with information on SCRUM and other project related issues as well as SkyDrive with project docs and archives. This iste is used also to annouce all the releases and plans.

Please get your MS Live Id and post your request to join dba-VB at MS Live groups.

2. Tortoise SVN

http://www.visualsvn.com/visualsvn/download/tortoisesvn/

Source Code Control software we use.

Please download an install.

3. Visual SVN (optional - it's not free - just free trial for one month)

http://www.visualsvn.com/visualsvn/

Source code control software/add-in to use from within Visual Studio.

Please download and install if you wanted to try it.

4. Northwind.NET

http://northwind.codeplex.com/

Site to publish latest versions of Source Code, to keep issue tracking and (wiki) discussions.

Please create your www.codeplex.com account and send instant message to Shamils or Gustav via CodePlex to get your account added to the list of developers of Northwind.NET

5. Mark Breen's SCC SVN Server

https://www.sjai.org:8443/svn/scrum01

Main Source Code Control site.

Please send message to Mark Breen (mark.breen*AT*gmail.com) to get your username and password to use with this server.
Once you'll get your username and password create a folder on your harddisk to keep project files and get files from SVN server using Tortoise SVN.

6. Northwind.NET project setup readme

http://northwind.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/5795#134202

7. SCRUM planning/tracing

http://shamils-4.hosting.parking.ru/scrum

Scrum planning/tracing site - setup completed but site is not yet in full use by team members as team isn't yet established and as I currently have to spend most of the time on development of Northwind.NET project forms/reports and I didn't have enough time to prepare data for this site: we currenly keep all planning in one MS Excel workbook available with together with source code.

New Post: FAQs, HOW TOs etc.

ShamilS — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:38:29 GMT

Here is the link to a short video-clip on how to make .NET WinForms using ADO.NET datasets:

dba-VB ► SkyDrive ► Documents ► Video-Clips► 01_HowToMakeAWinFormWithSubForm.wmv

https://cid-000971dc34dc18c0.groups.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Documents/Video-Clips/01%7C_HowToMakeAWinFormWithSubForm.wmv

You'll need MS Live account to get to this file

Thank you.

New Post: Release Notes

ShamilS — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:32:28 GMT

The first release is planned to be made somewhere arounnd 25th of April 2009.
Meanwhile you can download and play with the latest source code available here:

http://northwind.codeplex.com/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx

Thank you.