Since the birth of Visual Basic and Access, Microsoft has burned through a series of data-access APIs.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 09/01/2009
In its latest bid to show its support for PHP, Microsoft late last week released a toolkit that will bridge the popular scripting language to .NET-based data-driven applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/25/2009
Now that Microsoft is discontinuing its Oracle data providers, Oracle is readying an improved release of its own ODP.NET.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/25/2009
Microsoft is merging its Data Programmability and Connected Systems Group.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/20/2009
Subscribers to Microsoft's TechNet and Microsoft Developer Network services can now get their hands on the first community technology preview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.
Language design leader Erik Meijer describes new framework as a "breakthrough"in asynchronous programming.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/10/2009
Sorting in the GridView is simple to implement, as long as you want simple sorting. For more complex sorts you have to take control of the Sorting event.
How .NET developers can help Microsoft face growing threats to its .NET franchise.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/01/2009
Microsoft's financials continued to decline, with the company reporting $13.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth-quarter -- a 17 percent decrease compared with last year's fourth quarter.
So far, the reviews of VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are encouraging.
- By Kathleen Richards, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2009
In a significant move for those who develop .NET applications targeting Oracle databases, Microsoft is removing the Oracle data provider from its ADO.NET roadmap.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/16/2009
Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
If you want to use Entity Framework in ASP.NET, you're going to need to handle concurrency problems. Here are some suggestions from a Microsoft "architect evangelist."
Attunity Ltd. today released software that allows developers to apply change data capture (CDC) between Microsoft's SQL Server and Oracle databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/27/2009
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 bits are available to MSDN subscribers today. A public beta is scheduled for release on Wednesday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/18/2009