Headline Archive

Remember seeing an article headlined on the Data Access and Storage Developer Center, but can't find it anymore? We'll try to keep them here, so you can find them (for a while, anyway).

September 2006

Free to Developers: DevForce Express for Data-Intensive Client/Server Apps

Download the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.1

This latest version of the JDBC driver includes support for integrated authentication and database mirroring and a number of performance enhancements. In addition, this release includes an expanded help system that has sample applications to help you learn how to use the driver with a SQL Server 2005 database.

July 2006

Inside MSDN: Building the MSDN Aggregation System
This month John Mollman looks inside MSDN to examine the group's content aggregation system built atop SQL Server Service Broker.

BAM Code Samples
BizTalk Server BAM samples demonstrate how a team works to implement BAM in BizTalk Server 2006, how to use the enhanced BAM features, how to customize BAM and HAT integration, and how to use the BAM API from a BizTalk Server orchestration expression.

ADO.NET Entity Framework: How. What. Why.

Data Points: Report Controls in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

June 2006

SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver Now Available
In its continued commitment to interoperability, Microsoft released a new Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver with SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver download is available to all SQL Server users at no additional charge.

Try SQL Server 2005 for 180 Days
The new platform is chock-full of improvements that make it an ideal database engine—whether it's IT administration and management or database development. That's why we invite you to see what it can really do with a trial version.

The ADO.NET Entity Framework

Eliminate the impedance mismatch between data models and between languages that application developers would otherwise have to deal with new features available in the upcoming version of ADO.NET.

May 2006

Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” - LINQ CTP (May 2006)
The May 2006 preview of the Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) technology contains .NET Framework enhancements to support querying data, VB and C# language extensions, Visual Studio 2005 integration (editing, designing and debugging), plus samples, hands-on labs and whitepapers.

ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Matrix
Discover the new features in ADO.NET 2.0, including a new base-class provider model, SqlClient enhancements, pooling enhancements, asynchronous commands, and more.

Free to Developers: DevForce Express for Data-Intensive Client/Server Apps
Get IdeaBlade's DevForce Express, a developer productivity solution for .NET that is fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio for developing data-intensive client/server applications.

April 2006

Wicked Code: The SQL Site Map Provider You've Been Waiting For
In this installment of Wicked Code, Jeff Prosise updates his original ASP.NET 2.0 SqlSiteMapProvider to add support for automatic reloading of the site map following a change to the site map database.

March 2006

ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Matrix
Discover the new features in ADO.NET 2.0, including a new base-class provider model, SqlClient enhancements, pooling enhancements, asynchronous commands, and more.

February 2006

January 2006

SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver Now Available
Download the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver, a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity through the standard JDBC application program interfaces (APIs) available in J2EE (Java2 Enterprise Edition).

Using Asynchronous Command Execution in ADO.NET 2.0
Get an overview of the new asynchronous execution functionality in ADO.NET 2.0, the scenarios it was developed to enable, plus some of the issues to keep in mind when using this feature.

Data Points: SqlConnectionStringBuilder, DataView, and More
This installment of Data Points covers ADO.NET 2.0 features such as SqlConnectionStringBuilder, DataView, batch updates, and improved DataSet serialization.

Master Query Notifications in ADO.NET 2.0
See how the new notification technologies in ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 handle ad-hoc data refreshes.