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Integrating data into applications or reports is one of the most important, expensive and exacting activities in building enterprise data warehousing and reporting applications. SQL Server Integration Services which first appeared in MS SQL Server 2005 and continued into MS SQL Server 2008 provides a one-stop solution to the ETL Process. The ETL Process consists of extracting data from a data source, transforming the data so that it can get in cleanly into the destination followed by loading the transformed data to the destination. Enterprise data can be of very different kinds ranging from flat files to data stored in relational databases. Recently storing and exchanging data in XML has become common as exchanging data in XML format has many advantages…

The first installment in this article series showed some simple examples of plotting chart data. This article delves into more intricate examples, showing how to plot database data, data from an XML file, and data from other types of data sources.

The developer's guide to getting the right information out of mountains of data. Learn how to boil down the data into useful information while being confident that you haven't left any data behind.

It used to be a chore to build data-driven web apps with CRUD functionality. ASP.NET Dynamic Data makes it much easier to wire up a fully customized front end for your application. We'll show you how.

Microsoft has been building data binding frameworks for years, and each promises to solve our data binding woes forever. But we're still waiting for the perfect one. Could WPF data binding be the one we've been waiting for?

This article describes the development of a pie chart user control for WPF that uses data binding. The pie chart is not backed by its own model, rather, it binds directly to your data objects. This has the big advantage that the WPF framework takes care of handling events that relate to changes in the bound data, updating the pie chart view accordingly.

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web. Also known as Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services, now officially called WCF Data Services in the .NET Framework. There are also SDKs available for other platforms like JavaScript and PHP. Visit the OData site at www.odata.org.

Jesse Liberty shows the strength of XAML programming as he discusses hands-on code for data binding against runtime data, design-time data and binding one control to another.

NCache is a high performance in-memory object caching solution for mission critical .NET applications with real-time data access needs. NCache not only lets you cache read-only data but also complex transactional data with relationships. As a result, your application can cache most of its data and dramatically improve performance.

A chapter excerpt for Core Data for iOS: Developing Data-Driven Applications for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch