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This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. Fixes in this Service Pack concern stability and security enhancements made in many areas of the product. A comprehensive list of hotfixes requested by customers since the...

LINQ is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated data query, set, and transform operations. It includes extensions to the C# and Visual Basic languages with native language syntax for queries and provides...

The ADFS Management Pack monitors the health of ADFS components that are available in Windows Server 2003 R2. It includes a set of views, and it provides monitoring for the following core components: Federation Service, Federation Service Proxy,...

Microsoft XNA Build is a tool which will help game studios manage the growing complexities of their game content builds. We invite you to install this pre-release into a non-production environment to learn more about how XNA Build will reduce development...

This download includes the Nile 3.0 Sample Application for Oracle and SQL Server, and samples illustrating use of the .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.What is new in this release:This version...

Office 2003 Editions: Excel VBA Language Reference contains documentation (such as programming references and technical articles), and may contain tools and sample code designed to help you customize Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and to extend Excel and...

The Sumo Competition Services provide a simulation environment which hosts sumo competitions as well as a sample sumo player service which can be used in the simulation environment and with physical robots. The sumo competition takes place in a round...

SylvanMaps.Net's elegant SQL based architecture makes it easy to join your current data to geographic data such as zip codes, streets, states, countries, GPS data, or any of the other terabytes of geographic data now available. Supported databases include...

Views and Filters Sample code sample is part of the Diving Into Data Access column, Views and Filters. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.What is new in this release:This version is the first release on CNET...

Visual Basic .NET Code Sample: Data Access - Data Entry Form sample demonstrates how to create a data entry form to add, update and delete records from a single table. ADO.NET is used to insert, update and delete records from the Products table in the...