SQL Anywhere Integration with Visual Studio 2005
SQL Anywhere 10 contains a number of integration features with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (both 2003 and 2005). These features are designed to make it easier to work with a SQL Anywhere database while developing an application using Visual Studio. This whitepaper outlines the integration features that are present with Visual Studio 2005, and contains tutorials demonstrating how the integration features can be used to ease application development while working with a database.
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Develop Mobile Solutions Using ASP.NET Mobile Controls
Iam totally impressed with the .NET Framework and the .NET integrated development environment (IDE). Using the MMIT toolkit and .NET IDE, I put together this example in less than 2 hours! Like many of you, I was a little intimidated by developing mobile solutions. I wasn’t sure what technology solution to use. I was confused because you have to know a lot of things to develop a mobile solution.
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Deploying CFML on ASP.NET Using BlueDragon
This document describes how to install BlueDragon.NET and run CFML applications via the Microsoft IIS web server and the .NET framework, without requiring the installation of proprietary Adobe ColdFusion server software. See section 6 for details on the technical underpinnings of how BlueDragon.NET is implemented.
This document also offers a brief overview of the .NET Framework. More importantly, it explains the many benefits of .NET deployment for CFML developers. It discusses the many forms of integration that are possible between CFML pages and native .NET components, including ASP.NET pages. Section 3 discusses these many benefits, and the details and code examples of integrating CFML and ASP.NET are detailed in a separate document, Integrating CFML with ASP.NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
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XSD for Visual Basic Developers
As you develop distributed Web applications, you will need a way to represent your structured data and send it from one tier to the other possibly over the Web. XML is an excellent choice for representing structured data. For example, you’ll find yourself sending XML data between the middle tier and the user interface. The result is a set of middle-tier methods that emit or receive XML strings. You might have a method that receives invoice data like this:
Public Function SaveInvoice(sInvoiceXML As String) As Boolean
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Structured Query Language (SQL) Tutorial
Many database applications, such as Access LCTA, offer analyses and utilities to summarize data. In order to summarize data beyond these programs and maintain the database, Structured Query Language (SQL) is required. Although many databases allow for generating queries through the use of a point-and-click tool, this is often time consuming. Once the basic SQL statements are understood, summarizing and maintaining the data will become easier and faster.
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