Join Progress Software's Mike Gero and David Schwartz from University of Phoenix as they discuss fundamental SOA management principles that help enterprises recognize the full potential of an SOA with end-to-end visibility that quickly translates into more efficient and cost-effective SOA operations. Highlights include service governance through automatic discovery of services and dependencies, increased IT efficiency through root cause analysis and enterprise scalability and high performance without increased costs.

Aligning SOA with business goals is essential for maximizing its ROI. The key is being able both to understand how SOA consumers, especially the best customers, are being serviced and to address any potential issues swiftly in order to optimize the customer experience. But traditional IT management systems only offer metrics on how SOA IT systems are executing—without providing a context that shows their business impact. Actional for Continuous Service Optimization provides visibility and insight into the consumer experience. It relates end-to-end business process execution to underlying IT activity—delivering business metrics related to runtime operations, including key business indicators such as order-to-fulfillment times, for viewing and rich analytics on a differentiated basis: by individual customer, customer groups, regions, etc., including custom-defined metrics. In addition, management dashboards offer historical data on SOA usage in easy-to-use graphical formats and "management friendly" reports.

Looking to assist developers in building business applications, Microsoft published a second beta version of ADO.Net Entity Framework this week and a community technology preview of tools to work with the framework. The goal of the ADO.Net Entity Framework is to eliminate the impedance mismatch between data models and languages, saving developers from having to deal with these. An example of such a mismatch is objects and relational stores.

Overview: This application shows you how to execute SQL statements from code using ADO .NET. It creates a database, a table, a stored procedure, and a view. SQL statements are then executed that populate the table with data from the Northwind database. This table is then queried to fill a DataSet which is subsequently bound to a DataGrid for display. Table and column style objects are used to affect the appearance of the DataGrid. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

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ADO.net Programming article which focus on both how to write efficient code and how to represent the information which take advantage of layered design of .net framework. Articles describes how you can write code efficiently and improve performance of application and avoids errors due to poor coding style. Advantages of Article and DemoCode are : i) Opening of connection for a short time and Closing it as soon as database task is completed, it thus help in improving performance of application. ii) Better usage of Error-Handling, to make sure that connection is closed even if the exception occurs. iii) Follow Stateless design, taking all needed information as parameter and return all the data through return value. It helps in load balancing and it would be easy while implementing web-service. iv) Storing connection string in app.config file allow us to made a single change, to change a connection string. It helps in connection pooling.

Provides a detailed reference of the Mathematical Markup Language 2.0 (MathML), an XML based language used for displaying mathematical notation and content, especially on the web. It is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommended standard, and has been receiving increasing support by mathematical software vendors.

Provides detailed reference information about the Human Resources XML (HR-XML) data format, an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to enabling e-commerce and inter-company exchangeof human resources data worldwide.

XML documents are usually quite large, and to simplify working with them, Stylus Studio's XML editor provides XML code folding, a handy way to help you maximize the usage of your screen's limited real estate.

What my last post demonstrated was actually how element reuse limits your ability to reusing an XML Schema definition. Last few weeks I saw still too many people reusing elements over and over without considering what consequences this can have when later on a schema has to be updated, reused or extended...

There is good article on new XML tools in VS 2005. Our team used to own VS XML editor back in VS 2003, but now we concentrate on HTML ans ASP.NET. Whidbey XML editor is brand new code written in C# on top of VS native text editor by a different team. It is specifically designed to edit XML, XSL and tightly integrated with XSLT debugger. ASP.NET team still provides ASP.NET-related validation schemas, such as one for web.config.

Learn how ADO.NET not only supports relational data through the data provider, DataSet, and Adapter architecture, but also adds support for all types of nonrelational data through its integration with XML.

What is ADO.NET? It's the successor to the Active Data Object technology used in classic ASP. What is ASP.NET? It's the successor to Active Server Pages, Microsoft's popular architecture for writing server-side Web applications.

But studying ADO.NET in isolation isn't enough. You need to understand not only the ADO.NET object model, but how to use that object model from Web Forms (ASP.NET) and Windows Forms applications, in Visual Basic .NET and Visual Studio .NET. In this article, you'll learn the basics of ADO.NET in the context of Web Forms and Windows Forms data binding, and understand how to do data binding using the wizards and designers in VS and from scratch.

Ljubomir walks you through how to create a connection using the ODBC .NET Data Provider.

This is the second article in a series covering the subject of Concurrency in ADO .NET. Concurrency is the method by which many users are able access and change the same data simultaneously without being concerned that they are overwriting each others work.

In my last article I reviewed the ADO.NET object model as it is presented in the .NET framework Beta2. To put this information to practical use, this article will provide a walkthrough of how to use Microsoft's newest set of developer tools, found in Visual Studio.NET to create a working Web Application that accesses an SQL database.

This article reviews the ADO.NET object model found in Microsoft’s .NET Framework Beta2. The information presented here will be useful both to programmers who worked with Beta1 and also, to those just starting with the framework.

This article is my own approach on how a multi-tier application could look like in C# and ADO.NET. The program has a GUI (Graphical User Interface), BO (Business Object) and DO (Data Object). Multi-tier is in my vision a program where the GUI doesn't have logic (no code that makes decisions), the DO only reads and save data to the database and all the rest is done by the BO. That's what I tried to accomplish with this code.

In this article we will discuss a number of ways to retrieve, show, and update data with ASP.NET forms using ADO.NET. Also, we will have a clear idea about the most common server controls in ASP.NET. In particular, with this article we will cover ASP.NET server controls, ADO.NET DataSource, and creating Templated DataBound Controls, ASP.NET forms, using data with controls.