Developers got an indication of Microsoft's unfolding cloud platform strategy at this week's VSLive! conference in New York. Several conference sessions outlined the company's plans for Software plus Services and platforms-as-a-service, which offer hosted development and runtimes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/10/2008
Sybase announces plans to unveil an upgrade to its PowerBuilder toolset at its TechWave User Training and Solutions Conference.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Microsoft releases new database server, adding support for policy management, encryption and new data types.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/01/2008
Learn to access enterprise data stored in Oracle database servers by calling PL/SQL stored procedures from ADO.NET client applications and discover implementation strategies for dealing with common business scenarios.
- By John Charles Olamendy Turruellas
- 09/01/2008
Features a smooth upgrade from SQL Server 2005 and developer perks such as T-SQL and encryption.
- By Joshua Jones
- 09/01/2008
Although the overall number of vulnerabilities being discovered in software appears to be leveling off or even dropping, two recent reports on Web security say that the overwhelming majority of Web sites studied still have unpatched vulnerabilities that could expose visitors to malicious code.
- By William Jackson
- 08/28/2008
Microsoft on Thursday released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
Redmond strengthens open source ties by joining the Apache Software Foundation and contributing a PHP-to-SQL patch.
Microsoft's team developing the Windows 7 operating system has come out with a new blog called "Engineering Windows 7."
MessageLabs reports that the number of SQL injection attacks spiked sharply last month.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/13/2008
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/11/2008
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing and, as an evaluation edition, to subscribers of its Microsoft Development Network and TechNet services
- By Joab Jackson
- 08/06/2008
Embarcadero Technologies releases DB Optimizer, a new toolset designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/01/2008
Roger weighs in on the reasons behind the controversy surrounding Entity Framework.
- By Roger Jennings
- 08/01/2008
Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and SQL Spatial bring geospatial technology to the enterprise.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/01/2008