April 2008 - Posts

Program Manager openings in Data Programmability in 2008
16 April 08 05:50 PM | dpblogs | 2 Comments   

We’re gearing up for the next release of the SQL Server, and we are looking for people that have a passion for building great data access technologies and frameworks to help with the effort. We have been very busy recently releasing: · Microsoft .NET Read More...

Entity Framework & ADO.NET Data Services to Ship with VS 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1
09 April 08 10:02 AM | dpblogs | 29 Comments   

It's settled! The Entity Framework (and the Entity Designer) along with ADO.NET Data Services will RTM as part of the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 releases! Unfortunately, we don't have official release dates at this point, but stay tuned. You'll Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, Astoria, Entity Framework

Connecting to Pre-Release Versions of SQL Server 2008 – Part Deux
07 April 08 11:24 AM | dpblogs | 1 Comments   

Since posting on the topic of design-time and runtime connectivity to pre-release versions of SQL Server 2008 on the Data blog in November, the set of affected clients (applications, runtimes, and operating systems) have been officially released: Microsoft Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, SQL Server 2008

Update Model From DB
01 April 08 10:23 AM | dpblogs | 21 Comments   

The “Update Model from Database” feature in the CTP2 of the EDM designer is greatly improved in the next designer release. It now supports iterative development scenarios by adding new database tables and columns to the schema, correctly handling type Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, Entity Framework