SQL Azure is part of the Windows Azure platform: a suite of services providing hosted computing, infrastructure, Web services, Reporting services and data services. The SQL Azure component provides the relational database functionality of SQL Server, but it also provides functionality as a cloud-computing service, hosted in Microsoft datacenters around the globe. We will go [...]

HubCityNUG will be holding our monthly meeting on  November 17th.  Brian Sullivan will be speaking about Code-First entity Framework. If you are a developer, student, or just enjoy technology, please come and join us for a night of education and fun.

Presentation: “Code First” Entity Framework

Abstract:  The whiz-bang visual designer features of the Entity [...]

Synopsis: This month we will be having a series of short “Lightning Round” talks. Have you been using a new Microsoft, or Open Source tool? Been doing TDD or BDD ?  Feel free to prepare a short talk and share with the group.

Time: 7:00 PM (6:30 PM food starts)

This is a free event, [...]

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Microsoft’s WebMatrix is a new, lightweight website development suite. The development environment includes tools for creating new websites, installing applications from the Web Gallery, creating/managing databases, and analyzing a site for SEO and performance issues. In addition to the IDE, the suite includes IIS Express, SQL CE 4 and Razor view syntax. In addition [...]

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Microsoft Language Integrated Query (LINQ) offers developers a new way to query data using strongly-typed queries and strongly-typed results, common across a number of disparate data types including relational databases, .NET objects, and XML. By using strongly-typed queries and results, LINQ improves developer productivity with the benefits of IntelliSense and compile-time error checking. In [...]