(Surya Putchala) Master data management (MDM) is a data management discipline to actively “manage” master data enterprise-wide rather than “maintaining” it in each transactional system. There is heightened attention on MDM recently due to the pervasiveness of business intelligence (BI) applications.

(Brad Abrams) As I mentioned last month, VS 2008 fully supports building applications for .NET Framework 2.0… This is very important as it will take time for some hosters and IT organizations to fully deploy .NET Framework 3.5, but you don’t want that to block you from taking full advantage of t

(Tom Zhang) With the increasing need of using third party services, such as e-commerce, convention registration, web content management, etc., transferring user (customer) data from our database to a third party service provider becomes more frequent and more complicated. Due to different data stora

(Rocky Lhotka) It is commonly held as a truth that applications have a UI layer, a business layer and a data layer. In most of my presentations and writing I use a four-layer model: UI, business, data access and data storage. In this case the “data storage” layer is really the same as the traditiona

(Tess Fernandez) Lately, no matter where you turn there are LINQ presentations and Silverlight demos. A couple of years back the hot new stuff was webservices and XML.

(Tony Patton) Visual Studio 2008 was recently released to MSDN subscribers, and it’s slated to be available to the general public soon. These recent developments spurred me to take a closer look at the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship IDE.

(James Payne) In our last tutorial, we discussed statements and multidimensional arrays. In this article we are going to pick up on functions and work our way through to loops. It’s a lot to cover in a short amount of time, so buckle up and put on your helmet. No not your special helmet…the other

(John Tränkenschuh) I like text files. They’re easy to understand, which makes them great teaching tools. After all, sooner or later each program must save its results.

(Dennis Austin) Task Scheduler is the Windows service that schedules and automatically starts programs. Windows Explorer presents a user interface to the service when you browse the %WINDIR%TASKS folder, typically from the shortcut in the control panel. From the command line, the schtasks command a

(Rachel Baker) Data synchronization for occasionally connected applications is no easy task. Smart Client applications represent a highly responsive, rich user interface, but they can lose something when it comes to managing the flow of information across a distributed system. Data synchronization i