(Laishram Priyokumar) With the integration of the CLR with SQL Server 2005, we can create database objects using modern object-oriented languages like VB.NET and C#.

(Stephen Gallagher) For years, the writers of columns like this one have been tantalizing data management (DM) and marketing professionals alike with visions of a future in which personalized, relevant, context-sensitive marketing messages are delivered electronically to specific individuals. The re

(Michael Livshitz) Developing some web site we often should use some control in the GridView control. In this case we have to create the GridView control with TemplateField columns and use some special methods to access needed data. Inside the GridView control we can use both standard server control

(Bruce D. Neiger) A simple conundrum posed by Visual Basic 6 — how to trap and handle events from objects that are not assigned to an individual variable — was solved by the earliest versions of VB.NET. The solution is the AddHandler command. (R)

(Leidago) So far we have covered security vulnerabilities that involve form data, databases and file systems. In this article we are going to look at authentication and the security issues around it. We will also look at some of the most common attacks in this field.

(Steve Hoberman) Subtyping is a powerful communication tool on the logical data model because it allows the modeler to represent similarities that may exist between distinct business concepts to improve integration and data quality.

(Tony Patton) One of the most talked about topics in the industry right now is how the U.S. government’s changes to Daylight Saving Time (DST) will affect IT resources. Most of the attention is focused on operating systems, but application developers are raising a number of questions as well. Let’s

(Serge van den Oever) People writing add-ins for Visual studio probably have come across the nightmare of the Visual studio object model to go through the projects within a solution. I had to get the list of projects in a solution, and for each solution its output path in the current configuration.

(Jayant Kulkarni) To make your life as a developer easy, Microsoft continuously brings new technologies to the market. Sometimes, these technologies are similar to existing technologies, and at other times large enhancements are made in the current technologies. As a result, at times you see the pro

(William McKnight and Mike Cross) There is a notion that all of an organization’s data, both current and historical, needs to be in the enterprise data warehouse, regardless of its current or future necessity. In today’s world of exploding data, limited resources and viable architectural alternative