With the new Database Project in the latest version of SQL Server Developer Tools, you can now perform your database development in the same environment as your application development. We introduce the new release.
The Microsoft Entity Framework (EF) June 2011 CTP brings support for a number of the features developers want most, like enums, spatial types, and TVFs. Srikanth Mandadi introduces these new features by walking you through some simple examples.
With smartphone shipments recently outpacing PC shipments for the first time, many organizations want to target client experiences on multiple platforms, such as the desktop, Web, phones and tablets. The Open Data Protocol can help, as you’ll see with here with several detailed examples.
As much as the development community and latest browsers are pushing the HTML5 hype up to a fever pitch, the vast majority of people on the web aren’t using those brand new browsers and versions. But that doesn’t mean you have to put off using HTML5 till the next decade. In this column, Brandon Satrom provides some practical strategies for how you can adopt HTML5 technologies today.
F# is known for its ability to simplify complicated problems, but it’s far more than that. Chris Marinos shows you how to use F# to build practical Silverlight and WPF MVVM applications. You’ll learn how useful F# can be for solving everyday problems, and you’ll see how to use F# to make even the simplest applications easier to read, write, and maintain.
Who wants to get up at 3 a.m. for a status meeting? Learn valuable lessons about organizing and managing teams with members around the globe, who have various skills, motivations, commitments, project affiliations and restrictions.
Michael Desmond's first Editor's Note looks to the broad implications of the Windows Phone 7 "Mango" update.
Have you ever had to deal with the infamous “big ball of mud” clogging up your project? Learn the best practices to help fix a deteriorated system and patterns to prevent a growing system from growing badly and uncontrolled, degrading over time.
Our resident C++ guru continues his exploration of the thread pool, this month examining objects that control the environment in which callbacks execute.
Sometimes useful state information about an Entity Framework context is lost when the context goes out of scope, but Julie Lerman explains how a second-level cache can help retain this information for further use, such as in automatically generated database persistence commands, for example.