(Jon Shute) This article looks at how .NET debugging API works. In theory this API is simple and a joy to use, but there is a lack of a detailed overview as to how to use it in the framework SDK and you have to get some information from looking through the sources to the example debugger that is sup

(David McAmis) Most developers might know Crystal Reports from versions included in Studio, Visual Studio.NET, and other popular developer IDE’s such as BEA Workshop, C# Builder, Delphi 2005, JBuilder, WebSphere.

(Chris Peiris) The author investigates the capabilities of Microsoft Indigo in this article series. Indigo is an integral part of Microsoft Longhorn, the next version of Windows. He will examine the basics of SOA, the problems that Indigo solves – unified programming model and a step by step technic

(Patrick Meader) When Microsoft launched Visual Studio .NET, one of the main points it emphasized was that you could plug in any supported language you want to leverage the power of its new technology.

(Alejandro Gervasio) In the third part of his series, the author digs a bit further into object-oriented PHP. He explains the barebones of a paging class and techniques used to aggregate a new “MySQLConnector” class.

(Tony Patton) Microsoft quickly recognized the power of the Web services concept and fully embraced the technology with its many products. This is the first in a series of articles that focuses on developing a Web service from start to finish and consuming it with various clients.

(Soumendra Mohanty) At the onset of a data warehousing engagement, we invariably put more effort into understanding, analyzing, planning and developing a solution, focusing intently on the ETL component. As Ralph Kimball pointed out in some of his articles: 80 percent of the effort in building a

(Michael Otey and Denielle Otey) In this chapter, you see how to use the .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server’s SqlCommand object to execute commands on a target SQL Server system. In the first part of this chapter, you learn how to execute simple SQL action queries that don’t return any

This document outlines best practices for testing a managed application or component for compatibility with newer runtime versions. It covers different configurations you should test to ensure that the application continues to run properly. Full details on compatibility are available in Microsof

(Mike Mayer) Printing a document programmatically is quite involved. Using the ReportPrinting library presented here, you’ll be able to print reports with multiple sections, with very little code.