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2010 - September/October
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2010 - September/October · 11 articles
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So You Want to Be a Consultant: Risk Management
Rod Paddock Sep/Oct 2010 Editorial
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Privacy and the Application Developer
Do you store information about your customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, and your employees on a computer system? If so, you need to be aware of the many different movements that are happening, at least in the United States, about keeping that data secure. Many states are enacting or have enacted legislation requiring businesses to not only safeguard that information, but also force those businesses to notify customers if such information becomes compromised
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Is SharePoint Scalable or Not?
If there is one topic that has generated more debate than anything else, it is the scalability of lists in SharePoint. You can find as many opinions as there are people. Because I’m one of those people, allow me to express my opinions on this as well.
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PostMortem: A Large Mission-Critical Educational System
When you read about history, the stories are mostly about the people involved, and not as often about the tools and technologies people used. In software engineering, the stories about the people involved are known as “human factors” - and it is often the human factors in the life of a software project that make life interesting for software developers.
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ASP.NET MVC and the ADO.NET Entity Framework
Both ASP.NET MVC and the ADO.NET Entity Framework are both very popular topics right now in the developer community.Having spoken at various user group meeting and code camps it is very obvious to me what topics a lot of developers are interested in. I see that sessions about ASP.NET MVC or the Entity Framework are always packed with developers eager for more information. The focus of this article is the Entity Framework, but in the context of an ASP.NET MVC application. As such, I am assuming at least basic understanding of ASP.NET MVC but little-to-none with Entity Framework.
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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 More Examples of Functionality in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
In the last Baker’s Dozen article, I demonstrated 13 SSIS packages to show what Integration Services can do. This article picks up where the last one left off. I’ll show some capabilities in SSIS, such as handling irregular input files, extracting database changes, implementing package configurations, and leveraging the advanced lookup features in SSIS 2008.
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Add Some Spark to Your OData: Creating and Consuming Data Services with Visual Studio and Excel 2010
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web. Also known as Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services, now officially called WCF Data Services in the .NET Framework. There are also SDKs available for other platforms like JavaScript and PHP. Visit the OData site at www.odata.org.
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Composite Application Library (Prism) and Silverlight
With the advancement in the Silverlight technology starting with the 1.0 release to 2.0, 3.0, and lately 4.0, Silverlight is loudly saying WOW “Watch Out World.” Can you guess which world I am talking about here? It is the RIAs world! Really WOW!
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Ask the Doc Detective
In "Ask the Doc Detective," Doc Detective addresses common developer challenges by guiding readers through effective use of Microsoft Visual Studio documentation and practical solutions for deployment, keyboard input handling, control transparency, and localization issues. Through a question-and-answer format, the author emphasizes the importance of understanding prerequisites, leveraging built-in control properties, and exploring alternative approaches to overcome limitations, while encouraging developers to utilize and provide feedback on MSDN resources for enhanced productivity.
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