SQL Azure represents Microsoft’s cloud-based delivery of its enterprise-caliber, SQL Server database management system (formerly under the code name "Oslo"). Pro SQL Azure introduces you to this new platform, showing you how to program and administer it in a variety of cloud computing scenarios. You’ll learn to...

Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented computer programming language that can be viewed as an evolution of the classic Visual Basic (VB),...

You’re a sophisticated user of Excel—a real pro with spreadsheets—so now dig into its powerful programming capabilities and really put your data to work! From writing code in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to taking advantage of new XML data-sharing features, this book packs hundreds of timesaving programming...

Programming ADO is much more than an ADO programmer's reference. Any serious developer will tell you that a thorough understanding of ADO requires more than just listing object names and their properties. ADO is a complex COM front end on an even more complex OLE DB data access layer connecting to an ever-growing number of...

This book combines all major practical Web technologies and covers a complete series of Web applications. It provides an instant course and a reference for Web design beginners, young professionals (Web design programmers and engineers), as well as Web practitioners. We do not attempt to cover all aspects of a particular...

IBM DB2 UDB Express Edition Version 8.2 delivers everything small to medium-sized businesses need to accelerate time-to-value and dramatically reduce TCO in their database applications. Now, IBM's own experts show exactly how to get started with DB2 Express, and use it to develop, deploy, and manage superior applications from start to...

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Writing good code can be a challenge, there are so many options, especially in a language like Visual Basic. If you want to really get the best from a programming language you need to know which features work...

Anyone who has been developing on the Microsoft platform for the last several years knows the drill: every few years, there’s a new database access technology. There was ODBC; then DAO and RDO; OLEDB, ADO, and ADO.NET; LINQ to SQL; and now Entity Framework! In many ways, this progression of technologies has been confusing, but in other...