How to use SQL Server to build a business intelligence (BI) platform without getting your organization's top brass involved.
- By Andrew Peterson
- 07/01/2010
LINQ to SQL is a powerful technology that can do as much harm as good if it is mis-used. Here is how to get more out of your LINQ to SQL efforts.
- By Bart McDonough
- 06/24/2010
Microsoft today announced plans to introduce new SQL Azure pricing options later this month, based on the platform's improved scalability
Microsoft positions Visual Studio for developing business intelligence applications.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/10/2010
Continuing his investigation of what works and doesn't work with the AJAX library and .NET 4, Peter Vogel continues to explore how to retrieve data from the client... and discovers that it can be very easily done.
Peter Vogel discusses what you can't do in marrying ASP.NET server-side controls with client-side data access.
Peter uses the new dataView and dataContext objects from the AJAX Toolkit to create a data-driven page without server-side code.
SAP will acquire database vendor Sybase Inc. for $5.8 billion in cash, a 44 percent premium in the company's closing price Wednesday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/13/2010
If you want to integrate server-side Web service processing with AJAX objects in your browser, you should be considering WCF Data Services -- especially if you're working with the Entity Framework. Here's a quick introduction to the technology.
Microsoft released versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 products to IT professionals on Monday.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 makes it easier than ever to work with rich, data-bound elements.
- By Mark Boulter
- 05/01/2010
Learn how you can store history information for the user on the local client PC in a sandboxed Silverlight 3 application.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2010
A reader responds to "iPad's Platform Impact," Andrew Brust's March, 2010, Redmond Review column on the Apple iPad.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2010
Peter Vogel wraps up coverage of object-oriented programming for the single-tier developer by handling the difference between the data required by users and the object used by the business layer.
Developers with Visual Studio 2010 can package data-tier application components, including tables, views and stored procedures, as a single unit of deployment.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/21/2010