Expose your SQL Server data directly over the web. Learn to create SOAP-based native web services in SQL Server 2005/2008 that can be consumed from client applications over HTTP.
Need a fast database that won't bloat your application? Try this fast b+tree record manager with a small footprint, especially good for embedded device environments.
Careful registration of information in a Portal can be vitally important to a company, not only internally but also for possible juridical consequences. SharePoint 2007 has the necessary infrastructure to gather and conserve the entries in a secure way.
Learn how to build a sophisticated Facebook application that interacts with Facebook users and with SQL Server database articles.
Learn how ADO.NET connection pooling works and how to configure it to suit your performance requirements.
BizTalk Services, an Internet Service Bus hosted by Microsoft, showcases CardSpace and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), some of Microsoft's latest security and distributed technologies.
The people at Microsoft are busy with lots of products. Did someone forget that they should be excited about them?
Discover how to use the ASP.NET 2.0 SqlDataSource and AccessDataSource Controls to work with Oracle and Access data from Wrox Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition authors Bill Evjen and Devin Rader.
Did you replace MSDE with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition? Did you make the wrong move?
Submitting changes as update, insert, and delete queries is at the heart of any data-driven application. Learn the various support options DLINQ offers for these tasks.
Learn about the importance of transactions and key transaction management features in .NET 2.0 from JOe Duffy, author of Professional .NET Framework 2.0.
Indexing Server, SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server, and Windows Desktop Search provide full-text search capabilities. Each utilizes so-called IFilter components to index the content and then allows clients to search the index. Learn how IFilter components are utilized and how full-text searching works in each of those products.
Learn to programmatically administrate Indexing Server; for example, create a new Indexing catalog and then add folders to be indexed by this catalog.
ADO.NET 2.0 introduces Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS), a feature that enables you to execute multiple queries against the database using a single connection. Learn how to return multiple forward-only, read-only result sets using MARS.
Learn some time-saving tricks to use ASP.NET to read information from a database to your Web site.
Learn the step-by-step process to connect to an Oracle database from ASP.NET.
Discover how to design an interface (Windows Form) in Visual Studio .NET using the C# language and then create and link it to a database on SQL Server 2000. (The article was updated.)
