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Stop, Drop, and Roll
A couple of weeks ago, I made a post that I thought some sort of client side data structure, which was designed to store projections of a domain model instances (both in memory and persisted in a data store), was a necessary part of any O/R framework. Read More...

Posted Monday, March 28, 2005 5:32 PM by aconrad | 4 Comments

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Dataworks now has a group blog
My current group now has a team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/dataaccess/ Alyssa Henry, our product unit manager provided a good description of the technologies which it will cover. Read More...

Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 3:33 PM by aconrad | 1 Comments

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Nix the DataSet??????
Some interesting comments from my entry on new DataSet features… Please nix the DataSet from the framework entirely and re-focus on the domain-oriented data access work you were doing prior to Tech-Ed 04. If that's not possible, please have the Visual Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:50 PM by aconrad | 16 Comments

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DataSet feature requests
We have begun the initial planning for the next version of the DataSet (post VS 2005). If you have a feature you would like to see, let me know. I can also pass on feature requests for other components in System.Xml and ADO.net to the proper folks. Read More...

Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 1:27 PM by aconrad | 21 Comments

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Everybody's favorite topic - NULL
In V1 of .net, value types could not be null. Since, this was contradictory to relational databases use of null, the DataSet needed to have a concept of nullable value types – hence DBNull was invented. DBNull is simple type in the System namespace. It Read More...

Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 1:18 PM by aconrad | 4 Comments

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Dataset performance improvements in frameworks V2
System.Data.DataSet contains some very significant performance improvements over prior versions – particularly for large result set scenarios. In particular, Highly efficient Binary Remoting -- For large Dataset, orders of magnitude better than v1.x Row Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:30 PM by aconrad | 6 Comments

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