October 2008 - Posts

Clarifying the message on L2S Futures.
31 October 08 06:05 PM | dpblogs | 96 Comments   

There has been a variety of responses to the post on L2S futures in the last couple of days. Let me start by saying sorry for the radio silence since the post but, as Elisa mentioned,  we posted it while at PDC and were focusing on the interactions Read More...

Update on LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities Roadmap
29 October 08 05:36 PM | dpblogs | 186 Comments   

Since the release of LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework, many questions have been raised about the future plans for the technologies and how they will relate to each other long term. During this week of PDC we are now at a point, with the announcement Read More...

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

Sybase's SQL Anywhere ADO.NET Provider Supports the ADO.NET Entity Framework!
21 October 08 11:13 AM | dpblogs | 7 Comments   

Another Entity Framework-enabled ADO.NET providers post! Woohoo! It is my pleasure to announce that as part of the release of SQL Anywhere 11, Sybase iAnywhere has added Entity Framework support to their ADO.NET provider . For more information on the Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Providers, Sybase

Migrating from LINQ to SQL to Entity Framework: Deferred Loading
16 October 08 10:52 AM | dpblogs | 12 Comments   

Last week, we covered Eager Loading and how to migrate LINQ to SQL based code that took advantage of Eager Loading. This week, we discuss Deferred Loading. Generally speaking, queries only retrieve the objects you request, and not their related objects. Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL

Npgsql's ADO.NET Provider for PostgreSQL Supports the ADO.NET Entity Framework!
14 October 08 02:40 PM | dpblogs | 7 Comments   

I always enjoy making announcements regarding external providers releasing their Entity Framework-enabled ADO.NET providers. It is my pleasure to announce that Npgsql has released a version 2.0 of their ADO.NET provider for PostgreSQL , which includes Read More...

Filed under: Entity Framework, Providers, PostgreSQL, Npgsql

Migrating from LINQ to SQL to Entity Framework: Eager Loading
07 October 08 09:58 PM | dpblogs | 23 Comments   

Since the release of the Entity Framework, we have received a number of requests for details and best practices from customers who are looking at migrating their LINQ to SQL based applications to the Entity Framework.  In order to address this topic, Read More...