SQL Server 2008: IT to Business

In previous blog posts, we discussed on the new features such as dynamic development and pervasive insight in SQL Server 2008. In this post, we shall discuss on a fantastic feature - Reporting services in SQL Server 2008. As all of us are aware of the importance of reports at various levels and this feature in SQL Server 2008 is no exception. This feature helps in achieving and analyzing our targets based on the records available. Reporting services are embedded with SQL Server and we have...

Microsoft SharePoint Server – Part III

We are here to explore the feature of portal management available in Microsoft SharePoint Server. It would be interesting to note that there would be a system or a software available for us wherein an end user can utilize the existing features, customize as and where required and built an entire site. Actually, Microsoft SharePoint Server approaches this way and provides portal management system as one among its features in its platform. SharePoint provides us with a rich set of portal...

Microsoft SharePoint Server – Part I

With growing business needs, it is difficult for an organization to set up a result-oriented team. A team should be able to communicate among themselves as well as share the files and documents that are related to the same project they are working upon. However, it is difficult to set up an email communication especially if the same document is to be contributed by many people quite often. In such scenario email communication would not provide the desired outcome. Microsoft has devised a...

LINQ to SQL vs ADO.NET Entity Framework

LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Entity Framework are extensions of ADO.NET and are introduced to avoid difficulties involved in writing programs using object oriented programming languages to access data residing in RDBMS. Both have provided mechanisms to de-couple pure business logic and underlying data access logic (which is provided within the framework) with the help of LINQ (Language-Integrated Query) and thus allowing to query data using programming language's own syntax. Thus both allow...

Problem Hosting WCF Service in IIS 7.5

For a change, we thought of blogging about problems while developing applications. In this particular blog post, we have presented details about a problem we faced while creating a WCF service application in Visual Studio 2010 and the methods we adopted to tackle the problem without issues. Here's our head-on with the problem: Problem Statement: Our requirement was to create a WCF Service application in Visual Studio 2010 (.NET Framework 4.0) and host it in Windows 7 IIS 7.5 in a local...