Rapid Application Development With Visual Studio

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Rapid Application Development With Visual Studio Unleash The True Power of Visual Studio

Kok Choon 6/11/2008

Rapid Application Development with Visual Studio™

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Contents A Word from the Author… ......................................................................................................................... 4

Before Start… ............................................................................................................................................ 6

Create the Project and Data Sources ........................................................................................................ 6

Draw controls to forms instead of coding ................................................................................................. 13

Unleash the Power of Dataset Designer .................................................................................................. 16

Hierarchical Update with Visual Studio 2008 ........................................................................................... 23

Useful Resources .................................................................................................................................... 30



A Word from the Author…

Dear Valued Reader,

Welcome to Rapid Application Development with Visual Studio™!

This book is design to assist you in developing application with Visual Studio RAD technology.

Many developers still using conventional coding method introduced in VB 6, while these methods are effective in the old days, but the new and powerful Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 provides even more efficient programming tools – The RAD Dataset designer and components.

Conventional programmer will code their way to the end of the project, but new Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 allows developer to “drag and draw” their application from start till the end! They call it Rapid Application Development. Programmer from Borland Delphi in the old days already familiar with RAD programming, but until Microsoft replaced them with the powerful Dataset Designer, Form Designer and other visual tools, most of them switch to Visual Studio, and I am one of the Delphi developers.

From my experience with Visual Studio 2005, you can write code 500% faster than another conventional programmer with the help of visual inheritance, form designer and dataset designer. Some developer still relied on code generation tools such as CodeSmith to generate Insert, Update and Delete stored procedure for SQL server, and certainly data access code in Visual Studio!

The biggest problem for RAD programming not common between Visual Studio 2005 developers is lack of documentation and tutorial… and VS2008 has improved this weakness. Now you can find lots of video tutorial and web demos showing you how to code your software in RAD style; I predict the RAD programming will be become very popular in the next 3 years.

RAD will work very well because its’ utility has become to mature through the time, and developer can lower the development cost and deliver the project faster. If you don’t believe me, try it yourself, compare the “coding style” and “drawing style”, definitely you will agree with me that: Let the tools code for you always the fastest way.

For your information: Visual Studio 2008 added many cool features, you can now do 3-tier programming easier than before! and the Microsoft Synchronization framework for ADO.Net brings RAD into offline application; You can use the software offline and upload any pending updates that you make during offline into the server by batch, very cool feature! And the best part, you can do that RAD all the way…

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hope this book can bring the new age programming into your existing skills, we can expect to see more tools coming from Microsoft in the near future.

While all efforts are done to make this book perfect, inevitably there might be technical mistakes or editing errors, please feel free to contact the author at [email protected] for comment and questions, I will try to revise the book and answer your question as soon as possible.

Thanks for your generous support, look forward to your feedback!

Warmest Regards,

CYNICS SOFTWARE www.cynics-soft.com


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Useful Resources

Cynics Software – The Leading Provider in Accounting, POS and Inventory Source Code, build upon Rapid Application Development Tools from Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.

General Ledger Trial Source Code – Sample source code that demonstrates how we build our system using RAD tools.

Rapid Application Development Source Code in this tutorial.


http://www.cynics-soft.com/sign-up-general-ledger-source-code-evaluation.html

http://www.cynics-soft.com/rad-tutorial-source-code.html

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