This chapter is a good introduction to CMMI's scope and usefulness....   Read Article.

This chapter discusses some of the most common problems faced by Ubuntu users and to explores how to fix or otherwise resolve these issues....   Read Article.

CLINQ v1.1 has been released. Some of you may have already downloaded some of the new builds, but here's a rundown of what the new release includes: Support for Continuous Aggregation. Now, in addition to being able to have your result sets automatically update themselves in response to changes in the source set as well as changes to items in the source...   Read Article.

Finding it difficult to manage code changes from multiple developers? TortoiseSVN could be the answer....   Read Article.

Want to relocate to an exotic location? Organizations like the Pacific Disaster Center can help you make the right decision....   Read Article.

Randy Nash asks this question: Does FISMA make our agencies any more secure?...   Read Article.

Jeff Friesen shows how to make Windows icons available for use in your Java GUIs....   Read Article.

Virtualization tools make it possible for anyone to accommodate Linux machines inside the Windows desktop....   Read Article.

This chapter introduces you to tricks, shortcuts, and settings that can make working with documents faster....   Read Article.

Jim Cheshire discussed publishing your content to your web site using Expression Web 2, including server options, troubleshooting, and hosting your own web site....   Read Article.

Ivan Pepelnjak describes how you can create an Atom feed directly on the SQL Server with Transact SQL commands....   Read Article.

So you're building your data-driven application and you've got an ADO.NET Entity Model that represents an abstraction around your database. Maybe you're even pretty savvy and you've used inheritance and some filters to enhance the entity model so that it really is an entity model and not just a raw translation of your database schema...   Read Article.

ADO.NET, the classes found in the System.Data namespace in Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET), provides a wealth of functionality to developers who need to manipulate data, which, as it turns out, includes most all VS.NET developers. One of its interesting characteristics is that you can use ADO.NET and rely on its defaults to quickly and easily get an application...   Read Article.

In Part 2 of his five-part series on ADO.NET, Dale Michalk discusses ADO.NET connected operations with the Connection, Command, and DataReader classes....   Read Article.

Dale Michalk continues his series on ADO.NET with a discussion of the DataSet and its sidekick, the DataAdapter.n...   Read Article.

Learn how ADO.NET not only supports relational data through the data provider, DataSet, and Adapter architecture, but also adds support for all types of nonrelational data through its integration with XML....   Read Article.

Learn how to generate Typed DataSets in Visual Studio .NET and from the command line, as well as how to customize the generation by using annotations. n...   Read Article.

Create vibrant applications to entertain, educate, or titillate users. With just a little .NET work, you can plug into the Windows Media Player to create a rich experience for your users....   Read Article.

After introducing you to ADO.NET and its relationship to the SQL Server managed provider, this chapter walks you the creation of a Survey application. The ADO.NET example focuses on a number of best practices, along with recommended design patterns.n...   Read Article.

Microsoft's development tools are justly famous for their ease of use, and many developers have had the pleasure of impressing their boss with an exciting application that they knocked together in an afternoon. Many developers have also faced the disappointment of finding that the techniques they've read about and used for the single-user...   Read Article.