Microsoft Embedded MVP Maarten Struys shows how to create an application for a Windows Mobile 5.0 device using Visual Studio 2005. Learn how Visual Studio 2005 helps you to create user interfaces that will run on different devices with different display orientation modes and form factors. (video)
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Enabling Custom Authentication for SharePoint 2007
(Sahil Malik) One of the sore limitations of SharePoint 2003 was its obsessive/compulsive disorder to use Windows Authentication, only Windows Authentication, and nothing but Windows Authentication. This caused a typical Catch-22 in most implementations. Larger organizations that needed the collabor
Monitoring SQL Servers Availability
(Gregory A. Larsen) How many SQL Server instances are you running? Do you ever have customers calling you stating that their application is not working, then when you research the problem you find that the instance that supports their application is unavailable? Have you ever had someone mistakenly
SQL Server vs. MySQL: Syntax differences, similar GUIs
(MiMi Yeh) For those accustomed to Microsoft’s SQL Server GUI , there are free, open source options available for keeping the Microsoft look while maintaining the MySQL functionality. SearchOpenSource.com’s new MySQL expert, Scott Noyes, describes several examples and where to download them. In this
Using the Oracle Data Mining API
(Agust Egilsson) Following best practices, Oracle releases PL/SQL and Java application-programming interfaces (APIs) well before there is a point-and-click tool or builder available taking advantage of a newly released API. This practice enables developers to incorporate new functionality into their
DB2 9 sets world record for transactional benchmark
(Chris Eaton) On the heals of the largest TPC-H benchmark result which I had posted on previously, now DB2 9 running on an IBM p5 595 published the most transactions per minute ever in the TPC-C benchmark. With over 4 million transactions per minute (4,016,222 tpmC) DB2 9 leads Oracle 10g by 2.5x an
Overview of z/OS tools – Create z/OS procedures and build an insurance Web site using IBM Database Add-Ins for Visual Studio 2005
(Sonali Surange) Users building database objects and stored procedures on IBM DB2 for z/OS, and building Windows applications, have unique requirements specific to DB2 for z/OS. IBM tools address these key requirements and provide ease of use to enhance developer productivity specifically on z/OS.
Windows Vista’s XPS more than just a PDF competitor
(Greg Shultz) Windows Vista has so many compelling technologies, that I never really paid all that much attention to its PDF-like creation technology, called XML Paper Specification (XPS, for short). I’ve noticed it as a Printer option in all of the Print dialog boxes in Windows Vista.
Committing imports in SQL Server a little at a time
(Arthur Fuller) A colleague working on an Informix database needed to search TEXT columns using wildcards. While Informix supports wildcards in LIKE and MATCH predicates, this support does not include TEXT columns. The obvious solution—to export the data to SQL Server—does support such searches.
Introduction to Data Warehousing Part 1
(Wes Dumey) In Part 1 of this extensive series, Wes Dumey starts some of the core concepts of data warehousing. In this video he covers what a data warehouse is, why companies use them and what are some of the key components. (video)