A VSM reader responds to the September 2009 cover story on how to use the Repository pattern to eliminate dependencies in Test-Driven Development.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 10/01/2009
Noelios Technologies released a bridge designed to let Java developers to utilize Microsoft's ADO.NET Data Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/29/2009
In a bid to attract more developers to its Berkeley DB open-source embeddable database, Oracle released two upgraded versions with new APIs for simplifying application development and for the first time, support for Microsoft's C# and .NET Framework.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/14/2009
Software security vendors like to point to glitches in Microsoft products, but they don't always get much acknowledgment from Redmond.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/08/2009
The European Commission's decision to investigate Oracle's plan to acquire Sun Microsystems is focused largely on the future of the open source MySQL database.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2009
Oracle released the first major update of its flagship database in two years with an upgrade focused on server consolidation, improved storage and extended data warehouse performance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2009
How to avoid the end-to-end integration test problem with the Repository pattern.
- By Benjamin Day
- 09/01/2009
Since the birth of Visual Basic and Access, Microsoft has burned through a series of data-access APIs.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 09/01/2009
In its latest bid to show its support for PHP, Microsoft late last week released a toolkit that will bridge the popular scripting language to .NET-based data-driven applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/25/2009
Now that Microsoft is discontinuing its Oracle data providers, Oracle is readying an improved release of its own ODP.NET.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/25/2009
Microsoft is merging its Data Programmability and Connected Systems Group.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/20/2009
Subscribers to Microsoft's TechNet and Microsoft Developer Network services can now get their hands on the first community technology preview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.
Language design leader Erik Meijer describes new framework as a "breakthrough"in asynchronous programming.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/10/2009
Sorting in the GridView is simple to implement, as long as you want simple sorting. For more complex sorts you have to take control of the Sorting event.
How .NET developers can help Microsoft face growing threats to its .NET franchise.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/01/2009