Peter provides an alternative to the default mechanism for accessing connection string -- and plugs his next book.
Sun Microsystems joins Microsoft and Adobe in the RIA race with the launch of its JavaFX runtime, platform and development tools.
- By Michael Desmond and John K. Waters
- 12/15/2008
Where should Microsoft draw the line between adopting outside standards and technology, and building its own technologies?
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/15/2008
Release candidate of Redmond’s Web Platform Installer now supports Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2008
Microsoft’s Robotics Developer Studio 2008 comes with increased
runtime performance and improved tooling.
- By John K. Waters, Michael Desmond
- 12/15/2008
Microsoft on Friday released free open source code that can be used by Web developers to build online blogs.
You can use ASP.NET Routing to decode meaningful URLs into real physical path names.
LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic Development."
- By Roger Jennings
- 12/01/2008
New for ASP.NET developers with .NET 3.5 SP1 is routing, an easy way to simplify site maintenance -- and give meaning to your users' lives.
The OpenAjax Alliance unveils two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008
After using EF to drive a series of drop-down lists, Peter moves on to the next step: using EF to build a Master/Detail page.
What's one test of a new technology? Seeing whether you can use it with the old technology.
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
The second part of VSM's Q&A with Richard Hale Shaw discusses how -- and whether -- developers should keep pace with new technologies.
- By Richard Hale Shaw
- 11/01/2008
With Silverlight 2, the focus moves to optimizing development of RIA-based business apps.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft's Brad Becker on Silverlight 2 and the enterprise market.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft releases beta of model-view-controller framework with a go-live license.
- By Becky Nagel and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
A consortium of vendors focused on AJAX interoperability last week unveiled two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/27/2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/27/2008
To support a real page, your entity model is going to need multiple entities and associations between them. Here's how to add them.