(Scott Guthrie) In Part 1 of my LINQ to SQL blog post series I discussed “What is LINQ to SQL” and provided a basic overview of some of the data scenarios it enables.

(James Bender) Over the past several years, the security of operating systems has become more and more important. In response to the perception that their operating systems are less secure than their Linux based competition, Microsoft has responded by integrating a new security mechanism called User

(pabloj) I’m trying to automate some trivial maintenance tasks for my own MySQL server, and trying also to minimize the effort, so … Here is the recipe:

(Richard Blahunka) Improving the flow of information and knowledge within and organization doesn’t necessarily produce immediate, dramatic and observable changes; rather, the business just operates better in many subtle ways over time.

(Alejandro Gervasio) The PDO library is a powerful addition to PHP. It shines when you need to build applications capable of talking to different database systems. It also has other very useful capabilities. This article, the first in a three-part series, will introduce you to this versatile library

(Jeff Levinson) In this information-packed column, I will show you how to write a custom data-bound generator (DBG) for Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (DB Pros). You can download the solution code associated with this column (it’s available in both C# and VB). This genera

(Brian Eastwood) For today’s Visual Basic 6 developer, there are three sometimes stark realities. (R)

(Mike McIntyre) Visual Studio 2005 provides a feature, the ‘Data Source Configuration Wizard’, for creating a DataSource for a Windows Forms 2.0 application. This article provides step-by-step instructions and a sample Visual Basic 2005 application you can use to learn how make a Microsoft Access da

(Russ Sabitov) The DataGridView Windows Forms control is a quite new .NET control introduced in MS Visual Studio .NET 2005 that is a good alternative to the VS .NET 1.x DataGrid control. The data table presentation feature became much easier to be implemented in .NET Windows application.

(Ged Mead) We covered how to check and uncheck individual items in code in a CheckedListBox in Part 1. In this part I want to quickly run through some ways you can save and retrieve user’s choices.