(George Wrenn) Despite (or perhaps because of) vendors’ attempts to release patches on regular intervals, enterprises are still racing to seal holes in their infrastructures. Every extra minute a system remains unpatched is another opportunity for worms, backdoors, rooters and Trojans to infiltrate

(Chad Z. Hower) This article will allow you to design databases that are flexible, scalable and easy to maintain. They should also be of the caliber that when an actual DBA or another programmer inherits your system they will not want to go find another job. This is not intended to train you to

(John Papa) Someone once said to me that the hallmark of a good developer is the desire to spend time efficiently. Developers are continually pursuing ways to make coding easier and faster, and to reduce the number of errors. Using strongly typed DataSet objects in ADO.NET can help you do just that.

(Doug Thews) You can have a huge impact on customer satisfaction by improving your .NET application’s perceived performance—that is, users’ perception of the application’s performance. You can have the fastest box in the world running the latest OS and an application developed with the latest tools,

(John Hind) This article discusses: –Autonomous vehicle control with the .NET Framework –An extensible real-time control architecture based on a whiteboard metaphor –Implementation of an accurate GPS-synchronized timer component for .NET

(Thiru Thangarathinam) Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) is a new feature released with ADO.NET 2.0 that allows you to execute multiple queries or stored procedures on a single connection. The result is multiple forward-only, read-only result sets. In previous versions of ADO.NET, you could exe

(Tom Copeland) There is an understanding in the database world that using a "SELECT DISTINCT" SQL query is not a good idea, because it is essentially getting duplicate rows out of the database and then discarding them. Usually it is better to rearrange the "WHERE" clause in the query to only get the

(David McAmis) UML has become a hot topic recently, with developers realising the benefit of modelling as opposed to other methodologies. And one tool designed to take advantage of this interest in UML is Borland Together for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.

(Brian Berry) When I first read that .NET assemblies could be “redirected” at runtime, I was stunned and a little bit suspicious. After all, in the COM world the intricacies of component interaction had baffled me, but I knew enough to know that dynamic redirection just wasn’t possible. To be ho

(Craig S. Mullins) Most modern applications utilize database management systems (DBMS) to create, store and manage business data. The DBMS software enables end users or application programmers to share data. It provides a systematic method of creating, updating, retrieving and storing information in