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
In Microsoft's last fiscal third quarter, Server and Tools delivered $4.57 billion in revenue to the company, up 14 percent. The division is large, growing and increasingly profitable
The "release candidate" of Windows Server 2012 is expected at about the same time.
Code First Migrations allow for database changes to be implemented all through code. Through the use of Package Manager Console (PMC), commands can be used to scaffold database changes.
While there's lots of talk about big data these days (a lot of talk), there currently is no good, authoritative definition of big data, according to Microsoft Regional Director Andrew Brust.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/10/2012
From architecture to security to database compatibility, here's what you need to know to make your Azure cloud migration a success.
- By George Huey, Wade Wegner
- 04/08/2012