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Microsoft’s SQL team announced a new business intelligence tool built entirely on Silverlight called Project “Crescent”.

Source: SQL Server Reporting Services Team Blog

Today at PASS Summit 2010, the single largest gathering of Microsoft SQL Server professionals in the world, an exclusive audience of 3500+ PASS attendees were introduced to Project “Crescent”, a stunning new data visualization experience coming in the SQL “Denali”. Amir Netz demonstrated some of the new and exciting user experiences that Project “Crescent” will enable. At the heart of this capability is enabling users to have fun with data, exploring and discovering new insights, and presenting this information in new and exciting ways, letting the data tell a story about your business.

Watch a sneak peak of Project “Crescent” in Amir Netz’s video recorded at PASS Summit 2010.

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In this article, Mahesh Sabnis explores the mechanism of communicating with the local SQL Database using the out-of-browser features of Silverlight 4 with elevated trust permissions.

Source: Dot Net Curry

I started my carrier as a VB 6.0 Developer 12 yrs ago. During this period, I used to work with ADO (the data access technology during that time) for accessing data and performing CRUD operations. It’s been a long time since then. Now I use the latest .NET technologies for various types of application development and training. Currently I am using Silverlight 4.0 which contains some fantastic features like COM enhancement programming.

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EffiProz Silverlight Database Online Demo  http://www.effiproz.com/SL4QTDemo.aspx

EffiProz-SL embedded database for Silverlight applications is written 100% in C# and comes with an ADO.NET style programming interface. EffiProz-SL Supports creating In-Memory and Silverlight Isolated Storage databases. Some of the product features are SQL Stored Procedures, Multi-Version Concurrency Control, Role Based Access Control, Multi-Schema Support and the ability to create encrypted databases. New Silverlight 4 release includes a Out-of-Browser applications support,Data Binding Support for Silverlight Controls and ability to create databases in local file system special folders (like My Documents, etc.).

On this year’s Bleeding Edge conference I had a talk on debugging with my fellow SQL Server MVP. While he covered some common pitfalls developers make on the SQL Server side, I focused on the Silverlight side of development and debugging:

• possible issues with application deployment
• options and strategies for returning WCF faults with Silverlight 3
• using windbg with Silverlight application to track its execution
• finding data binding failures and memory leaks

In a previous post I discussed the advantage of separating the Data Access Layer (retrieving data from your data store) from the Data Transport Layer (moving data from the server to your client.  We then took a small but important detour into an introduction to  Linq.  This posting will expand upon Linq sufficient to allow a good understanding of how we’ll be using Linq in the rest of the project.

In fact, we’ll explore a number of ways of doing so. To get started, however, we need to create a database that is sufficient for the project and sufficiently illustrative of working with relational databases, without being overly complex.

Fortunately, the project requirements are of about the right complexity.