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Today we are excited to announce the official release of WebMatrix 2! This version includes tons of new features and improvements. In this overview, we will show you how WebMatrix makes it easier to build websites with PHP and publish them. Here is the download page if you want to skip the intro and...

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, As you know, two weeks ago, we released our 3.0 drivers along with SQL Server 2012 . It was around the same time that PHP 5.4 was also released to the web, and we have received many requests from our community members to support the new PHP runtime. It is my pleasure...

Dear SQL Server Developer Community, We wanted to extend a massive ‘thank you’ to the community in providing feedback for our release of our Customer Technology Preview back in September, and we’ve been working hard to incorporate the feedback you have provided us. You will find...

This has been re-posted from the Microsoft Interoperability blog . The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure . The SAG Awards site is a highly visible, high...

This entry is a re-post of Brian Swan 's entry on The Silver Lining blog. In my last post , I looked at the session handling functionality that is built into the Windows Azure SDK for PHP , which uses Azure Tables or Azure Blobs for storing session data. As I wrote that post, I wondered how easy it...

Drupal 7 completed a 3-year journey earlier this year by exiting beta stages and declaring itself ready for prime time . Our team (the SQL Server Drivers for PHP team) was fortunate to be part of that journey by working closely with the Drupal community to add SQL Server support to this release. We learned...

The SQL Server JumpIn! Camp , was scheduled from Nov 16 th thru 19 th at an excellent facility not too far from Microsoft's main campus with the purpose of bringing key PHP developers and SQL Server engineers together with the goal of supporting SQL Server and SQL Azure, with the last day reserved for...

Have you responded to our survey yet? If you already have, then we thank you for taking the effort and appreciate the feedback. The survey will automatically close on Monday August 16th @ 5:00 PM Seattle time , so if you haven’t started it (or haven’t completed it) yet, there’s still time to complete...

Microsoft is announcing an important interoperability milestone: the release of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0!! The major highlight of this release is the addition of the PDO_SQLSRV driver, which adds support for PHP Data Objects (PDO). The PHP community has signaled that PDO is...

Dear PHP developers and SQL Server users, We, the PHP group in the SQL Connectivity product team, received a lot of feedback in our previous survey in Oct 2009, and we responded to the feedback by delivering a PDO driver in our v2.0 release. After releasing our CTP2 for v2.0 of the driver, we have...

It's been about two weeks since we released our CTP2 for the SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers. While we've been actively monitoring and responding to feedback on our blog/forums, we have also been busy with the last set of "mini features" to complete our CTP2 release. The “mini features”...

It is our pleasure to announce the release of Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) of the SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0! We would like to thank all who provided feedback and bug reports on our CTP1 release (April 19th) the SQLSRV (our native API) and PDO_SQLSRV drivers. Last week we shared our plans...

We have seen some increase in activity with more people downloading our driver and either reporting their successes or reporting any issues they run into – for the SQLSRV driver (sqlsrv_xxxx API) to the PDO_SQLSRV driver (PDO API). We’d like to thank you all for your effort and hope that...

SQL Server, as a database product, has grown over the years and there are multiple ways to connect to it. Often, the different ways to connect to the database get documented and discussed in the various technology sections, and the technology choice determines which connectivity method one is going to...

Our team is really excited to announce the new release of phpBB 3.0.7-PL1 by the phpBB community that supports SQL Server, and one can download it from the Web Application Gallery for a very easy install!! But let’s step back for a moment and provide some background. Microsoft’s Interoperability team...

April has been an incredibly busy week for the team, so it has taken some time to blog about this camp. As they say, better late than never. As several of the attendees blogged before me, I thought that someone else would beat me to highlight the overall goal/format of the camp. But I guess not, so I...

Today at DrupalCon SF 2010, we are reaching an important milestone by releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the new SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 , which includes support for PHP Data Objects (PDO). Alongside our efforts, the Commerce Guys , a company providing ecommerce solutions with Drupal...

Well, to start off with, we got a great response to our PHP survey and …. But wait, first things first, let us start off with introductions. I joined the team recently as the Program Manager for this driver. I’ve worked on several technologies in my career and very excited to be a part of this...

Have you submitted your response to the survey yet? If you have, thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. If you have not yet taken the survey OR have not finished it yet, it's time to get it completed so that your voice can be heard. The survey, which is available here...

Today we are excited to announce that the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft ® SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1. This version of the driver provides new capabilities for building PHP applications and support for SQL Azure as well as support for PHP version 5.3, enabling developers to build...

For those who are not already aware of the Web Platform Installer (WPI), it's a great tool for setting up a Windows machine for Web app development and deployment. You can download the beta of WPI 2.0 or the WPI 1.0 release here . PHP itself is available via the WPI 2.0 beta. Installing PHP through...

It is my pleasure to announce that Microsoft has released an update to version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP. The update to the driver is the April 2009 Cumulative Update and it contains a series of targeted fixes, the majority of which were reported by the community via the MSDN Forum...

One of the most common tasks of any web application involves allowing a user to ‘page’ through a large amount of data. In other words, given a large result set, the task is to present the user with a manageable subset and allow him/her to navigate through the result set by viewing ‘pages’ (i.e. subsets...

The SQL Server Driver for PHP team is hard at work on the version 1.1 of the extension. We've received a lot of feedback for feature requests from PHP developers through the blog, forums, the Seattle PHP meetup group, and various conferences. The most frequent feature requests have been in the following...

In this post I want to demonstrate how the streaming capabilities of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP work seamlessly with the new FILESTREAM functionality in SQL Server 2008. The FILESTREAM functionality in SQL Server 2008 enables applications to store unstructured data, such as documents and images...