When fewer SQL Server columns does not mean better performance.
Set up and use create a simple Windows Phone program that connects to Azure Mobile Services.
- By Nick Randolph
- 09/24/2012
The Kansas City-based startup wants to make it easier for developers to examine the network stack and find problems in code.
It's not clear when the service will be rolled out as a final release.
See how lambda expressions enhance a common programming scenario.
In part one of this series, Nick Randolph discusses the use of Expression Blend design-time data in Windows Phone applications.
- By Nick Randolph
- 07/12/2012
Microsoft has cooked up a feast of value-added big data cloud apps featuring Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive and Pig, as well as free apps and utilities for numerical analysis, publishing data sets, data encryption, uploading files to SQL Azure and blobs.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2012
Accessing a customer relationship management system with a custom .NET application can add important functionality.
On June 7, Microsoft introduced its revamped Windows Azure cloud computing platform to the world.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/29/2012
The service is free until Aug. 1.
By adding IaaS to its Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio, Microsoft is also mounting its most formidable challenge yet to Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/07/2012
Use the Microsoft Sync Framework to synchronize data changes between SQL Server 2008 Standard, SQL Server 2008 Express and SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5.
The Altova MissionKit is a bundle of great tools that work together, but unlike a control suite, the cost savings may not add up for some shops.
Proposed deal comes amid discouraging financial news for Dell.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/25/2012
The Release Candidate of Microsoft's object-relational mapping framework for .NET is available via NuGet.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/18/2012