Technology Toolbox: Visual Basic, ASP.NET, XML M icrosoft's .NET initiative is tied closely with the concepts of SOA and Web services. Indeed, .NET was created with the intention of being an excellent ...

One of SharePoint Portal Server's selling points is that it provides broad customization at all levels, from a corporation's home page down to a single user's personal page. Without having to write ...

Benefits of Web-based apps include a lower cost of ownership due to central deployment and maintenance, as well as client/operating system independence. At the same time, Web interfaces are becoming ...

Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.

What's new in HTML5-related technologies is direct support for features that developers take for granted in other environments -- there's more that can be done declaratively without having to drag in ...

Security is an important consideration when building any ASP.NET application, not least because these apps typically interface with the Internet and all of its inherent dangers while managing vital ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and ...

Suppose a salesperson on the other side of the world says he needs your enterprise application to support another culture by tomorrow morning so he can demonstrate it to prospective customers in a ...

The Microsoft Synchronization Services 1.0 API for SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and the new Sync Designer in the Orcas March 2007 CTP team up to generate a local data cache that synchronizes ...

This month I'm writing about an issue I've found myself helping people with frequently of late: problems with related classes defined in Code First and then, in most cases, used in the ...

Compiling your applications frequently can help you save time, effort, and sleepless nights down the road. Learn how to implement this system using the open source tool, Draco.NET. Every developer ...