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The vulnerability affecting those applications has elevation-of-privilege implications for organizations. An attacker can use a cross-site scripting (XSS) technique to “run arbitrary script” that may lead to the attacker gaining access rights on a Web site running SharePoint, according to the advisory. Security experts and Microsoft’s Ross explained that unlike traditional XSS attacks that require […]

Microsoft has quietly transformed its upcoming software developer and system integrator conference, Windows Summit 2010, from a physical event to a virtual one. Webinars, anyone? The event, which aims to attract software, device and system “technical implementers” interested in developing or building systems on Windows 7, had been originally planned to be held at Microsoft’s […]

Introduction Here’s the scenario, you have a client that runs banner ads on their website. The client now wants to customize their banner ads when a user is logged in. That is, when Bob comes and logs in to the website they want the top of the banner ad to read “Hey Bob!”. Now, you […]

Silverlight is one of the new web development technologies that Microsoft has been promoting. As a database professional, you might be wondering what Silverlight is and what it offers to those in the SQL Server world. I’ve compiled five FAQs about Silverlight that give you the essentials on this new technology. 1. What is Silverlight […]

GrapeCity, the world’s largest component vendor for the Microsoft .NET framework platform and a Visual Studio Industry Partner, today announced full support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 in all .NET spreadsheet, reporting, and business intelligence products that are part of its award-winning PowerTools line of products. FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms 5 is the world’s […]

The latest incarnation of Visual Studio had a difficult gestation, with critics pointing to the slowness and instability of the beta release. Installation was an eye-opener: the 2GB ISO was quicker to download than it was to install – not even counting the several reboots required. When moving files around locally takes longer than downloading […]

Introduction to Microsoft SQL Azure The relation database (RDBMS) provided in Microsoft Azure is known as SQL Azure. The SQL Azure database can be easily integrated with your local SQL Server and tools provided in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. An Azure Developer can use T-SQL scripts for querying data as they presently do […]

Now, what are the SLAs offered by some cloud providers? Before the cloud, service level agreements were part of the telecommunications and internet service provider world. Now that computing power and storage is being offered in the cloud, SLAs have been extended to cloud resources by providers such as Amazon and Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft […]

One of Silverlight video’s biggest advantages to date has been the server’s ability to tweak the bitrate of video playback as it’s being played back, and as the bandwidth of the connection varies. It’s the smooth streaming feature that premiered last June with Silverlight 3. Now, with Silverlight 4 already well under way, Microsoft this […]

DevExpress.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of its newly added Silverlight and WPF Report Viewer Control. This new Report Viewer Control renders reports created with the award-winning DevExpress Reporting System and prints natively within any Silverlight and WPF application. XtraReports was engineered to help you create stunning reports for your end-users in the […]

Earlier this month Redmond released Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, the .NET Framework 4.0 (which includes ASP.NET 4.0), and new versions of their core programming languages: C# 4.0 and Visual Basic 10. In designing the latest versions of C# and VB, Microsoft has worked to bring the two languages into closer parity. Certain features available in […]

The basis of this solution is to control which fields are grouped on within the report which will in turn change the summary operations and change the entire context of the report. The following tutorial uses the Xtreme Access database which ships with Crystal Reports and allows the resulting report to focus on order values […]