Sometimes, life really is like a box of chocolates. The same can also be said for software upgrades. Take, for instance, Visual Studio 2008. After all its various CTPs and RTMs, I feel like I've been ...

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Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

One of the most frequently asked questions from new Windows Phone developers is how to store data. Prior to Windows Phone 7.5 (also known as "Mango"), the answer was that any data had to be manually ...