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 putting out the word that users of Internet Explorer 6 should upgrade to IE 8, primarily for security and standards-compliance reasons.
If you want to let your users edit repeated rows of data, you can use the GridView -- even if your data isn't in a table. You need to do pick the right design for your data but you can enable all of the functionality of the GridView for data held in memory.
Survey shows increased use over past year of JavaScript and PHP and a decline in static languages such as C, C++ and Java.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/12/2009
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.
The move to the Internet cloud will pick up steam in the next year for developers, according to a new survey from Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans Data Corp.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/05/2009
Use the DesignProperties class to prevent code errors in the Blend designer.
VSM readers honor the best commercial development tools.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2009
Readers chime in on XAML.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 08/01/2009
Peter returns to .NET RIA Services to look at the client side of creating an application.
The ASP.NET-related portions of .NET RIA Services aren't ready for primetime yet, but now's a good time to start kicking the tires.
Microsoft is connecting its Live@edu online collaboration suite with Moodle, an open source learning management system.
Your users may want to get their data in a specific order -- and not get it all at once. You can control both with the ObjectDataSource (and a little code).
Upgrade offers added integration and new Eclipse-based tool for advanced developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/15/2009