By William Sheldon, 12/15/2011
If you're looking for ASP.NET rapid application development (RAD) controls, Telerik's RadControls suite is an excellent choice.
By Sheldon, William, 09/23/2011
Although this package has the term OLAP in its name, it doesn’t work with multidimensional data.
By William Sheldon, 10/25/2010
LINQ is still a powerful tool for working with SQL Server data and includes new features such as Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) and SharePoint integration.
By William Sheldon, 09/27/2010
If you’re a developer but not a DBA, you might find many performance monitoring tools hard to use. Visual Studio 2010’s Performance Profiler can get you the information you need ...
By William Sheldon, 09/22/2010
If you’re a developer but not a DBA, you might find many performance monitoring tools hard to use. Visual Studio 2010’s Performance Profiler can get you the information you need ...
By William Sheldon, 07/20/2010
This suite of add-ons for Visual Studio will help you quickly populate a grid, chart, or similar ASP.NET web page with data.
By William Sheldon, 10/14/2009
Locking down your database environment can be a difficult task, but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how to protect your databases by using service accounts and encryption to secure ...
By William Sheldon, 12/23/2008
Create T-SQL scripts to run on target systems for exporting table data to remote clients.
By William Sheldon, 10/30/2008
Use RowGen 2.0 to create referentially valid but random sample data that you can use in your test environment.
By William Sheldon, 09/29/2008
Draw upon your ADO.NET skills to start using ADOMD.NET
By William Sheldon, 09/29/2008
Take advantage of your T-SQL skills to learn MDX query basics.
By William Sheldon, 09/29/2008
See how to build an MDX query against a cube.
By William Sheldon, 03/28/2008
Build efficient queries using LINQ, which is included in Visual Studio 2008.
By William Sheldon, 10/25/2007
There are commonalities between the different forms of data binding. This article's focus on simple Windows Forms and ASP.NET examples provides a great introduction to data ...
By William Sheldon, 06/21/2007
XML tool suites from Altova and DataDirect Technologies are both excellent for XML editing and XML Web services support.
By William Sheldon, 10/06/2006
Today's green field is tomorrow's green swamp. Although rewriting code from scratch might seem easier, learn why you should do it in only rare cases.
By William Sheldon, 10/05/2006
When Microsoft introduced its .NET technology, there were many discussions about whether this was a sign of the end of COM. At the time, most people concluded that it wasn't the ...
By William Sheldon, 10/05/2006
People have had both good and bad experiences with merging changes in Team Foundation Server (TFS). If your experiences have been bad, here's how you can prevent problems.
By William Sheldon, 08/07/2006
In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced Snapshot Isolation, which is supposed to be an alternative to using NoLock. However, Snapshot Isolation has a few problems.
By William Sheldon, 08/07/2006
Learn what really sets a candidate apart when interviewing for a developer (or any) position.