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Forwards Compatibility

Forwards Compatibility In response to yesterday’s editorial I received a number of comments regarding backwards compatibility. I have been working with Microsoft SQL Server since version 4.21. Unlike many products I have used, SQL Server has been very generous in supporting deprecated features. Generally, the status of a feature is made known long before the product no longer supports it; […]

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Database Upgrades

Database Upgrades With the recent release of SQL Server 2012 you now have more opportunities with your installations. Now the questions of upgrades, support for earlier versions, multiple version support, reverse compatibility and much more emerge once again. For those of you who have never experienced a release of a new version of SQL Server there is a lot to […]

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Tapping the Juice UI with ASP.NET

(Bipin Joshi) jQuery and jQuery UI are quite popular JavaScript libraries amongst ASP.NET developers. jQuery UI provides several widgets and plugins that help you develop professional looking websites quickly and easily. Though ASP.NET developers have been using jQuery UI in their websites, one down

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Integrating Bing Maps With WPF

(James McCaffrey) Released in January, version 1 of the Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Control allows you to integrate mapping functionality directly into WPF applications. The downloadable SDK, which contains the library binaries and programming reference, provides some good exampl