reating reports is one of the most common things developers are asked to do when building a typical business application. Businesses want to know how well a product has sold,
orking with value types was sometimes awkward in .NET 1.x, because they could cause serious problems in applications that retrieved data from database tables containing columns that can have null
rior to SQL Server 2005, Microsoft’s SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) offered the most efficient way to manage SQL Server programmatically. SQL-DMO supported a COM-based interface that you could use
ource code reviews and inspections have long been considered economical methods for rooting out functional and design flaws in code even before applications make their way to testing. As security
ASP.NET AJAX (formerly called Atlas) is a new free framework from Microsoft designed to let developers add Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) features to ASP.NET applications easily, simplifying the process
isual Studio provides convenient design-time wizards to define static database connection strings that you can store in your settings files. Storing connection strings in configuration files means you can update
his article walks you through a case study that illustrates how to marry SharePoint 2007 with Excel data to offer a Business Intelligence (BI) “lite” solution for avid spreadsheet users.
DescriptionCompanies have been talking about knowledge management and leveraging their IT investments to enhance team collaboration for years, but have had difficulty implementing effective solutions that tie together the wide
ometimes you find yourself thinking, “I wonder if I can make my application do this…?” The target of your thoughts might not immediately seem to be a useful, or even