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- By Bill McCarthy
- 06/01/2007
Identity Governance Framework proposed by Oracle Corp. will help protect consumer information online.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 06/01/2007
Visual Studio Magazine Readers' Choice Awards: The best tools in the industry across 22 categories, as chosen by VSM readers and editors.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2007
Integrating data queries into VB and C#
The new object/relational mapping technology in 'Orcas.'
- By Elisa Johnson
- 05/01/2007
The Microsoft Synchronization Services 1.0 API for SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and the new Sync Designer in the Orcas March 2007 CTP team up to generate a local data cache that synchronizes incrementally and bidirectionally with SQL Server Express.
- By Roger Jennings
- 05/01/2007
Oracle Corp. to acquire Tangosol Inc., company’s Coherence Data Grid for .NET will add value to SOA solutions.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/15/2007
As official Microsoft support for VFP comes to an end, loyal developers rally around the venerable programming language.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/15/2007
The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases.
- By Nancy Vodicka
- 04/15/2007
Syware Inc. releases beta of Visual CE 10, a touch screen-friendly tool designed to run on Windows Mobile devices.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/15/2007
Connected Health Framework is Microsoft’s latest move toward SOA.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/15/2007
SapphireSteel Software, Microsoft among others, show growing interest in Ruby's relationship to Visual Studio, .NET
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/01/2007
CodeGear, spun out of Borland, releases its first dev products: Delphi 2007 for Win32 and Delphi for PHP.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2007
There are advantages and disadvantages to today's application-tier caching techniques. Consider your data caching options for improving data-intensive application performance.
- By Marie-Anne Neimat
- 03/28/2007
Less than a month after shipping SP2 for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft issues a hotfix to prevent maintenance plan cleanup tasks from removing data before the specified cleanup interval.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2007