(Tony Patton) The list of enhancements and new features available in .NET 2.0 can be a bit overwhelming. My method has been to wait to dig into the details of the various features until a project calls for it. However, you can use one of the new features, partial classes, throughout your project.
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Cool stuff for the folk in CM
(Willie Favero) I know it’s been a while since I had a post with a little content. We are all in the same business here so I will skip the long list of excuses and just say I will try to post more often. With that said, let’s see what’s up with DB2.
How Does Oracle Perform Math?
(Steve Callan) No, this article is not about the math behind Oracle’s pricing scheme. The question posed in the title has to do with the calculator math, which comes with Oracle. Over the past 30 years, calculators have evolved from expensive novelties to inexpensive, largely ignored dust collectors
Use WPF and WCF to Build Next-generation Applications
(Laurence Moroney) In the previous articles in this series you took a look at how to use the Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer to separate the design from the underlying implementation of your applications. Expression is a next-generation tool, aimed at designers, that allows them to create
What’s in a Name? Data Governance Roles, Responsibilities and Results Factors
(Rich Cohen) I’m not a really a “word” guy. I do not sit around thinking about the nuances in the definitions of words, and I do not usually enter into semantic discussions. I think function is more important than nomenclature. Nonetheless, there should be a common, agreed upon language – a system o
Using the new ASP.Net 2.0 XmlDataSource
(Brett Burch) I previously used a custom collection to display the article titles and summaries on my /dotnet landing page. This involved reading the XML file, hydrating a business object for each article, returning the business object to the page, explicitly setting the data source for the DataList
Beyond The Default (Part 2)
(Roger E. Sanders) In Part 1 of this column, I described how choosing the correct isolation level controls which phenomena (lost updates, dirty reads, nonrepeatable reads, and phantoms) can occur when DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows transactions aren’t isolated from each other in a multiuser enviro
Using Synonyms in SQL Server 2005
(Mike Gunderloy) If you’ve been developing with SQL Server for any length of time, you’re undoubtedly used to referring to objects with four-part identifiers: [[[server.][database].][schema_name].]object_name
Analysis: Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Power Grab
(Stephen Swoyer) Unless you’ve been off siesta-ing in a data warehouse appliance, you probably know that Microsoft Corp. last week dropped a bombshell on the business intelligence (BI) industry. Redmond outlined an Office-focused BI and performance management (PM) strategy that—for the first time—ca
HOWTO: Pick an open source license (part 1)
(Ed Burnette) You’ve made the decision to release your code as “open source”. Ok, what does that mean, what is an open source license, and how do you pick the right one? This question comes up all the time so I thought I’d write up a simple decision tree to try to explain the choices. This isn’t leg