MSDN Magazine - August 2008 - (Page 12)

*]QTL QV\MZIK\Q^M LQIOZIU[ MI[QMZ \PIV aW] M^MZ QUIOQVML from Microsoft Access , SQL Server , and Microsoft Excel data stores. Using these classes requires a bit more code than when serializing to disk. For example, when importing a record class to a SQL Server database you must specify the server’s connection information and provide the INSERT statement and values. However, using these classes can shave off a lot of boilerplate data access code. Price: Free, open source. filehelpers.com ® ® ® problem. It’s a great way to hone your debugging and general problem-solving skills, as well as a way to see the techniques and thought processes used by other developers as they tackle the same problem. odetocode.com/blogs/scott 8W_MZN]T Ð M`QJTM IVL MI[a\W][M ,W_VTWIL ?Q\P .]TT ;]XXWZ\ cVReV Tfde`^ Z_eVcRTeZgV UZRXcR^d _Veh`c\ VUZe`cd h`c\W]`hd W]`hTYRced R_U UVdZX_ e``]d 7`c hVS dVcgVcd `c ]`TR] Raa]ZTReZ`_d :e|d VRdj e`fdV R_U gVcj W]ViZS]V HV|cV eYV WZcde UVgV]`aVc `W UZRXcR^^Z_X T`^a`_V_ed R_U deZ]] eYV SVde 7Z_U `fe W`c j`fcdV]W+ U`h_]`RU `fc 7C66 Wf]]j Wf_TeZ`_R] VgR]fReZ`_ \Ze hZeY Wf]] dfaa`ce Re hhh_h``UdT`^ .:-- A common challenge developers face when building data-driven apps centers around database versioning. After the app’s initial deployment, and as new feature enhancements are being added, developers will need to make changes to the data model. What’s the best way to implement these changes and propagate them through the development, testing, and deploying phases? If you’re looking for guidance to project-management questions such as this one, check out the blog by author, speaker, and consultant Scott Allen. The advice Scott dispenses comes directly from the trenches. Whether it’s an entry about unit testing, shrink wrapping an ASP.NET Web application, or getting the most out of Visual Studio , Scott shares his experiences, what he tried, what worked, what didn’t, and traps to avoid. Alongside architecture and project management® Blogs of Note In the March 2008 Toolbox column I reviewed Firebug, a free, open source browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays information about the visited page’s HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images. Firebug makes it easy for a Web developer to visually inspect and modify the various elements of a Web page. It also displays the size and time required to download any external resources such as images or For a more detailed analysis of your page’s load time, check out YSlow version 0.9.5, a Mozilla Firefox browser add-on created by Yahoo! that integrates with Firebug. Once installed, YSlow appears as a tab in the Firebug user interface. From the YSlow tab you can view detailed information about the external resources ( just as you can from Firebug), statistical information about the page’s components, and tips for improving the page’s performance. YSlow’s Stats view breaks down the bandwidth consumed by the page’s HTML, IFrame content, Flash content, JavaScript total size and total number of HTTP requests needed. Furthermore, it details this breakdown when the data has been cached by the browser. The cookies sent to the page, along with the sizes and contents, also are enumerated here. The most indispensable feature of YSlow Toolbox 12 msdn magazine V_WWL[KWU gritty technical posts about LINQ, JavaScript and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Windows . My favorite aspect of Scott’s blog is his ongoing “What’s Wrong With This Code” series. In each installment, Scott shares a snippet of code with some faulty logic and ® ™ http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott http://filehelpers.com http://www.nwoods.com http://www.nwoods.com

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MSDN Magazine - August 2008 Toolbox CLR Inside Out Basic Instincts Cutting Edge Patterns in Practice Data 2.0 - Expose And Consume Data In A Web Services World Biztalk EDI - Build A Robust EDI Solution With BizTalk Server Silverlight - Create Animations With XAML And Expression Blend Write On! - Create Web Apps You Can Draw On With Silverlight 2 Wicked Code - Craft Custom Controls For Silverlight 2 Team System Foundations Windows With C++ Concurrent Affairs Going Places { End Bracket }

MSDN Magazine - August 2008

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