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The Xamlon Story

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 09:00:00 EDT

Xamlon, a small startup in LaJolla, CA, started with a Windows desktop product called Xamlon Pro. This package provides developers with a taste for XAML-based declarative markup programming. XAML is compiled with managed code to produce applications that run in the Xamlon viewer. This is the same approach that was promised in the Longhorn timeframe with the new Avalon user interface engine.

ADO.NET 2.0 Framework and Designer Enhancements

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

ADO.NET is the managed code library for the .NET Framework. Its ancestors include ODBC, DAO, RDO, ADO, and OleDB. Some of these technologies still exist in the framework, but most developers rely on the resources provided in the ADO.NET namespaces. There are evolutionary changes in ADO.NET 2.0 that will be released next year with Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0.

Integrating SQL Reporting Services with Microsoft CRM

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Microsoft CRM is a Web-based customer relationship management framework. Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) developed this product in-house to complement its purchased accounting offerings of Great Plains Dynamics, Solomon, Axapta, and Navision.