(Andrew Woodward) With the covers coming off the SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) I have been looking at how this may impact on SharePoint. When we first started to introduce WSS v2/SPS 2003 there was often comments from people: “You store the documents in SQL Server!”

(Scott Guthrie) One of the features that web developers will really like with VS 2008 is its built-in support for JavaScript intellisense. This is enabled in both the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition as well as in Visual Studio, and makes using JavaScript and building AJAX application

(Joab Jackson) The National Information Exchange Model has gotten its first upgrade. Version 2 should be released by the end of this month, and the final beta is available on the NIEM site.

(Bipin Joshi) Traditionally developers used TSQL to create SQL server stored procedures, functions and triggers. SQL Server 2005 has integrated support for .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). That means you can now use .NET languages such as C# and VB.NET to create SQL server stored procedures, func

(Sas Jacobs) Welcome to part 2 of the three part case study on building a Flex 2 application. In part 1, we started to build our real estate listings application. We created the interface for the application and the custom class that loaded the external XML document. In part 2, we’ll populate the Re

(Paul Kimmel) In this article, I will demonstrate a small part of my presentation from the West Michigan .NET Users Group Day of .NET, An Introduction to Orcas, anonymous types. (Kudos to Chris Woodruff for pulling off a first rate event.)

(Damon Armstrong) Microsoft SharePoint 2007 gives you the option of using forms authentication, but the out-of-the-box forms-based login experience is fairly bland. It’s not bad if you’re doing something for internal use, but if you’re doing something for internal use then you’re probably using Wind

(Srinath MS) When creating XML files, sometimes there are fields (elements/attributes) where you need to use special characters like space, &,

(Laurent Schneider) SQL*Plus is a not only the command-line interface to the database server, it is also a featured reporting tool with paging capabilities. The pagesize is the number of rows of one page. The default is 14 and the maximum is 50000. One of the common property of the page is the heade

(Jonathan Lewis) This queston came up on the Oracle newsgroup a few days ago: I have a table (call it policy) with three columns a, b and c. The table has two rows, with column c having value zero for both rows. I run the following query select * from policy order by c;