The Chunk extension method in LINQ enables you to split a data source into bite-sized chunks for processing, thereby improving resource utilization and application performance. However, you should ...

The data hub was also touted by Arthur Vickers, engineering manager for .NET Data and Entity Framework, whose Aug. 4 .NET data biweekly update asked for feedback on organization or missing topics.

While it doesn’t get a lot of attention, System.Data is crucial for any sort of relational database access in .NET. Also known as ADO.NET in honor of its predecessor, ActiveX Data Objects ...

Plug-ins provide handy control elements, data visualization, access to sensors or synchronization with the backend – often free of charge and open source.

Enterprise software development and open source big data analytics technologies have largely existed in separate worlds. This is especially true for developers in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. The ...

Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism Interoperability team is introducing on Friday an open source project to bridge PHP and Microsoft’s .Net programming model, Microsoft ...

As having proximity and location data becomes less of a nice-to-have and more of a necessity, it’s important for brands to know not only the benefits that using such data will bring but also the ...

Rather, I took the opportunity to point out the open source route available to .NET connoisseurs. The application mix For the sake of this article, I'll concentrate on client/server applications.

An open source .NET will make Microsoft software more appealing to developers, he says, but perhaps not as appealing as the combination of Linux and Java or some other programming platform.