Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 7, "Creating a Shared Database," of Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit [Microsoft Press, 2003, ISBN: 0735619220]. It has been edited for ...

Asynchronous programming helps you to improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your application. In this article we will explore the basics of asynchronous programming and write code to ...

Microsoft would like you to use ADO to access your data, but is it the right solution for you? Follow along with our step-by-step example to learn more about this technology and see what advantages ...

In this article I’d like to present a discussion on concurrency handling, concurrency violations and the strategies involved to resolve concurrency conflicts. Concurrency violations: when and why do ...

Progress Software Corporation has announced the release of DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET 3.5, extending support for Microsoft Entity Framework 4.0 to its Sybase, Oracle, and DB2 providers. With this ...

BEDFORD, USA: DataDirect Technologies has upgraded its ADO.NET database drivers, which enables developers to write and deploy .NET applications that connect to multiple databases including Oracle, DB2 ...