2007 - November/December
The Nov/Dec 2007 issue of CODE Magazine - covers .NET 3.5
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The Nov/Dec 2007 issue of CODE Magazine - covers .NET 3.5
Nov/Dec 2007 Editorial Column by Rod Paddock
Have you ever spent hours and hours trying to figure out one little bug? Stayed up all night trying to work out a sweet piece of code? Gotten totally lost in trying to see how some new developer technology works?
In these series of articles, I intend to take on common everyday problems that face organizations and solve them using SharePoint. If you already use SharePoint, you will probably raise an eyebrow and think “Neat!” at the end of the article. If you don’t use SharePoint yet, maybe this will tip you over the edge.
Recent polls show that nearly fifty percent of applications with reporting functionality use Crystal Reports, and about twenty percent use SQL Server Reporting Services. This article will cover some of the major reporting tasks that developers face, and how the two reporting tools (Crystal and SQL Server Reporting Services) handle the tasks. Finally, I’ll provide a sneak preview at the next scheduled releases of both products (the next version of Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services 2008).
The challenge of bringing data from efficient storage engines such as SQL Server into object-oriented programming models is hardly a new one. Most developers address this challenge by writing complex data access code to move data between their applications and the database. This requires an understanding of the database so that you can access data either from the raw tables, from views, or from stored procedures.</b>
I’d guess that everyone reading this magazine has heard of Silverlight™. I’ll also guess that not everyone has jumped at the opportunity to “play” with something that had been in beta. The good news is that Silverlight 1.0 is now released! I’ve spent a lot of time with Silverlight since Microsoft made the Community Technology Preview version available as WPF/E. The delta between a Web site without Silverlight and a Web site that allows you to experience the wonderfulness of Silverlight is huge. Before you finish reading this article, I hope you’ll realize how very easy it is to bridge that gap.
It can be tough keeping up with all the new technologies released by Microsoft, but Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a technology you do not want to miss.This article demonstrates the benefits of Windows Workflow and invites you to roll up your sleeves and get started creating your first basic workflows.
In this article you will learn how to isolate yourself from change by taking advantage of the Provider Model.Designing your applications using the Provider Model will allow you to swap components out at runtime, thus allowing you to upgrade them easily.
Nov/Dec 2007 Doc Detective Column
In show #270 Richard and I talked to Erik Meijer from Microsoft about LINQ. In this excerpt we talk about LINQ to Entities.