Microsoft has decided to drop development of OracleClient from its ADO.NET roadmap; while the provider remains available, use of it should be avoided in new applications accessing Oracle data sources.
- By Jonathan Bruce
- 12/22/2009
Microsoft says it needs more time to address concerns with virtual memory usage in its next-generation integrated development environment.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/18/2009
Windows provides an ongoing stream of general system notifications that you can fairly easily hook into.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 12/17/2009
Large-scale Silverlight applications can end up making hundreds of calls from the application to WCF service operations. Here's how to consolidate those calls into a single method.
Hosting provider provides free server space and access to test ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/11/2009
Peter looks at the options for client-side development and the practicalities of leveraging ASP.NET.
Peter deals with all the people who want to disable the Back button. First, he tells them to stop asking but (finally) breaks down and suggests a solution.
DataViews fire a range of events that you can use to ensure that data is correct before it goes to the database -- and they're especially useful when you're using the GridView or DetailsView.
The winner of Microsoft’s recent Code 7 contest heard about the competition just three weeks before the deadline.
In November, Microsoft released the feature-complete preview of SQL Server 2008 R2, the first major upgrade of its flagship database platform in nearly two years.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2009
The jQuery library makes it easier to create applications that execute in the browser. By leveraging existing ASP.NET technologies and merging them with jQuery, you can create faster, more responsive applications.
Gurock SmartInspect not only allows you to log anything you want, it includes a powerful tool for analyzing the results.
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 held in Las Vegas in October marked an important milestone for Redmond's popular SharePoint collaboration and publishing platform.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2009
Microsoft's second release of ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 could bring object-relational mapping to more developers, but exactly how many remains to be seen.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2009
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference (SPC) 2009 event defied the tough economic times. With more than 7,400 attendees, SPC eclipsed the size of this year's TechEd and MIX confabs combined.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/01/2009
Visual Basic 10 introduces new generic tuple classes that can help you get more done with less -- if you're careful about it.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 12/01/2009
The free SDK enables developers to use a PC, multiple mice, and PC-based simulator tools to build and test apps for Microsoft Surface.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/20/2009
Burley Kawasaki, the director of Microsoft's Connected System Division, explains why AppFabric is the next logical step in .NET abstraction.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/19/2009
Rx is a .NET Framework extension library that developers can use to build applications that can react to changes to the collections in their environment.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 11/19/2009
Microsoft releases the 2010 set of betas of its Office productivity software -- Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010 and Office Mobile.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/18/2009