DevForce® Developers

IdeaBlade Videos

Our Videos provide an ideal opportunity for you and your team to obtain introductory or in-depth knowledge of DevForce and assess whether our product is the right technology for your project.



The Videos below are specific to DevForce EF ( .Net 3.5 Framework)
DevForce EF Fundamentals
  Part 1 - Object Mapping
  Part 3 - Winform UI
  Part 4 - Modifying Your Database and Updating Your Entity Data Model



The Videos below are for DevForce v3.X ( .Net 2.0 Framework)
DevForce Fundamentals
 

DevForce version 3.1.4 includes a major upgrade of the tutorials; specifically, all of the beginning tutorials have been redone in an orchestrated sequence. The beginning tutorials are now synchronized with the materials and topics presented in the instructor-led DevForce Fundamentals training class; the same material is represented in the videos provided below.

Obtaining the Code for the Videos

If you have DevForce 3.1.4 or later installed, and you installed the tutorials along with the product (which is the default), you already have the code that corresponds to the videos below. If you have an earlier version of DevForce and cannot upgrade at this time, but want the tutorials, you can download them by clicking the following link:

DevForce Tutorials (Not needed if you already have DevForce 3.1.4 or later) - coming soon

The videos below utilize C# code, but all tutorials include both VB and C# solutions.

  Part 2 - Object Mapping
  Part 4 - Populating a WinForm
  Part 6 - Saving and Undoing Changes
  Part 7 - Supporting Disconnected Users
  Part 8 - Adding and Deleting Business Objects
  Part 9 - Validating Input
  Part 11 - Working with the Null Entity
  Part 12 - Working with Many-to-Many Relations
  Part 13 - Disconnected Tutorial
  Part 14 - Validation thru Verification
  Part 15 - Performance Tuning Your DevForce App

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Introduction to Application Development Using DevForce

Learn the basics of creating a DevForce application from the following set of videos. The videos capture, in sequence, the process of building a simple, yet sophisticated, disconnectable smart client application.
 
Part 1 - Building Your Business Model
 
Part 2 - Binding Winform Controls to Your Business Objects
 
Part 3 - Adding Master-Detail Grids to Your Form
  Part 4 - Enhance Your Application to Minimize Network Traffic and Performance, Support Disconnected Use
 
Part 5 - Adding and Deleting Business Objects
  Part 6 - Adding and Deleting Business Objects Using the
              .NET BindingNavigator
Deploying a DevForce Application with ClickOnce

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The Videos below are for IdeaBlade v2.X (.Net 1.1 Framework)
   
Adding a Login Form to Your Application
Build an Application in Minutes
Creating Reports with Developer Express XtraReports
Deployment using IIS
Dynamic Properties
Easy State-of-the-Art Application Development With DevForce
Enabling Optimistic Concurrency
ID Generation in DevForce
Integration with Microsoft Office
Object-Relational Stored Procedures for Aggregate Entities
Object-Relational Stored Procedures for High Performance
Pre-Fetch for Better Performance
Securing Your Application
Supporting Disconnected Users
VB6 to Visual Basic.NET

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MSDN Web Casts
IdeaBlade presents on Microsoft's own Web cast channel:
Best Practices in Distributed Smart Client Application Development
Rapid Application Development with IdeaBlade 3.0 and VS 2005
Rapidly Build Smart Client Applications with IdeaBlade
Transition Easily from VB6 to VB.NET


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