Visual Studio Magazine

An Encrypted String Data Type for Visual Studio LightSwitch

In my recent article, "Is Visual Studio LightSwitch the New Access?", I looked at the suitability of LightSwitch as a replacement tool for departmental applications developed in Microsoft Access.
Visual Studio Magazine

Geek Talk: Are Strings Value Types or Reference Types?

Some things only matter to the true nerd. So, if you're looking for a genuinely useful article, this isn't it. While gurus would like to claim that all issues are black and white, that's not even ...
TechRepublic

SQL basics: Datetime and interval data types

Shelley Doll finishes her coverage of SQL data types with an overview of datetime and interval data types. Learn more about the basic syntax of these standard SQL types. Datetimes and intervals are ...
Redmond Magazine

Expanded Data Types: Microsoft Excel's Most Significant New Feature in Years

A few months ago, I speculated on what a then-rumored Office 365 "Life Edition" might end up looking like. Ultimately, Microsoft chose to abandon the "Life Edition" moniker in favor of much more ...
InfoWorld

Dataframes explained: The modern in-memory data science format

Most people are familiar with data in the form of a spreadsheet, with labeled columns of different data types such as name, address, age, and so on. Databases work the same way, with each table laid ...