August 2008 - Posts

Introducing Table-Valued Parameters - Part 1
15 August 08 04:37 PM | dpblogs | 10 Comments   

Hey everyone! I am Himanshu. I am a program manager in the ADO.Net team. Today I am going to talk about Table-Valued parameters that are new in SQL Server 2008. About 4 years back I was writing an application which involved adding metadata about my music Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, SQL Server 2008

Entity Framework RTM Breaking Changes
12 August 08 11:44 AM | dpblogs | 13 Comments   

There were a number of changes to the Entity Framework and the designer between Visual Studio 2008 SP1/ .NET Framework 3.5 Beta and RTM that will require updates to existing source code. These breaking changes are listed below, including the mitigation Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, Entity Framework

Updated Entity Framework Samples for RTM
12 August 08 07:43 AM | dpblogs | 10 Comments   

We have just updated a number of Entity Framework samples, including two sample providers, to work with the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 released today. Most updates were cosmetic, but there are some major changes too. EFQuerySamples Read More...

What's new in the VS 2008 SP1?
11 August 08 04:10 PM | dpblogs | 11 Comments   

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 introduces significant new functionality as ADO.NET expands and evolves to change the way that we program against data. Between the Visual Studio 200 SP1 beta and RTM , there are a number of fixes and even a few new things to be Read More...

Third Party Provider Support for the Entity Framework RTM
11 August 08 09:38 AM | dpblogs | 8 Comments   

Today we announced the release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services in the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. With this release, many database providers have pledged support for the Entity Framework. To date, 12 Read More...

RTM is Finally Here!
11 August 08 09:12 AM | dpblogs | 9 Comments   

The Entity Framework and the Entity Designer have Released! Today marks the official RTM of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, and we are thrilled to announce the official RTM of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, the ADO.NET Entity Designer Read More...