(Gustavo Velez) Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) 2007 is Microsoft’s innovative tool that provides the infrastructure to advance collaboration and communication within organizations based on the smooth flow of documents and information.

(George P. Alexander Jr.) Most .Net developers spend a lot of time on the database writing Stored Procedures for their applications. At first shot, you think more of functionality over performance. Once you’ve got functionality ready, you probably take a look at getting the maximum performance from

(Brad McGehee) The focus of this section of our performance audit is the base operating system (OS), and how to optimize it in order to get the best performance out of SQL Server.

(Jack D Herrington) In a world where everything is designed to amaze and distract, it’s awfully difficult to get a user’s attention. Learn how to use new techniques such as lightboxes, pop-ups, windows, and fading messages with your Ajax tools to get your users’ eyes on your content.

(Karl E. Peterson) Microsoft has suggested, in a somewhat backhanded way, that the VB6 development environment (IDE) will be supported for the lifetime of Vista. Here’s their latest summation of the future of Classic VB support: The Visual Basic team’s goal is that Visual Basic 6.0 applications t

(Brian Mains) Stored procedures provide the ability to perform some action against a database and have some advantages to querying data from an application. First and foremost, it reduces the amount of redundancy and has a performance gain when multiple calls are executed. In addition, it does not h

(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles, and Profile systems were designed using the provider model, which enables these systems to seamlessly use different implementations. ASP.NET ships with a provider for managing members and roles through SQL Server and another for using Active Director

(Eric Kraus) Need to automatically promote the properties (nodes) of an XML document in a Form Library using a properties.xfp file?

(Chris Eaton) I keep reading these articles over and over and over and it reminds me of when I was a kid. Back then people were saying that by the time I was old enough to drive there wouldn’t be cars anymore. We would all be driving around in flying vehicles. I watched the Jetsons with delight imag

(Colin Spence) This article walks you through a case study that illustrates how to marry SharePoint 2007 with Excel data to offer a Business Intelligence (BI) “lite” solution for avid spreadsheet users. The information and lessons learned in this article come from a real-world project, where a compa