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There is still time to make yourself heard
09 November 09 04:29 PM | dpblogs | 0 Comments   
The ADO.NET Providers team still needs your input. This is the last week to answer our ADO.NET Managed Providers Planning survey. Help us to make the decisions that will benefit our database community. The survey can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/11/01/the-ado-net-providers-team-wants-to-hear-your-opinion.aspx Read More...
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VS2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Announced!
19 October 09 05:56 PM | dpblogs | 17 Comments   
Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are now available for download by MSDN subscribers and will available to the rest of the world on Wednesday. Beta 2 as well the VS2010 Launch date of March 22, 2010 were announced this morning on Soma’s Read More...
POCO in the Entity Framework : Part 2 – Complex Types, Deferred Loading and Explicit Loading
28 May 09 09:03 AM | dpblogs | 41 Comments   
In my post last week on the POCO Experience in Entity Framework , I covered the fundamentals of POCO support in Entity Framework 4.0. In this post, I’ll cover a few more aspects related to POCO. Complex Types Complex Types are supported in POCO just like Read More...
Attachment(s): NorthwindPocoSamplePart2.zip
DataSet and Silverlight
26 May 09 09:41 PM | dpblogs | 37 Comments   
I’ve been asked a few times lately whether DataSet is or will be supported in Silverlight, so I thought I’d post the answer here. There are no plans to add DataSet into future releases of Silverlight. However we are investigating work to bridge existing Read More...
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Entity Framework-Enabled Providers Lists
26 January 09 12:05 PM | dpblogs | 10 Comments   
I love posting announcements to the blog to let people know about the latest and greatest information about Entity Framework-enabled ADO.NET providers. Blogs are perfect for announcements like that, but they're not as handy for providing an overview about Read More...
OpenLink Releases Their Virtuoso ADO.NET Entity Framework Provider
12 January 09 05:20 PM | dpblogs | 1 Comments   
It is my pleasure to announce that OpenLink Software has released their Virtuoso ADO.NET Entity Framework provider - an ADO.NET 3.5 data provider compatible with Visual Studio 2008 and Entity Frameworks, that provides access to native Virtuoso data (SQL, Read More...
Beta of Firebird ADO.NET Provider with Entity Framework Support Available
12 January 09 04:52 PM | dpblogs | 1 Comments   
I'm pleased to announce that a beta of the Firebird ADO.NET provider with Entity Framework support is now available. Congratulations to Jiří Činčura and to everyone else who has worked on this project so far! For more information, please see Jiří's blog Read More...
IBM's ADO.NET Provider Supports the Entity Framework!
10 December 08 04:57 PM | dpblogs | 2 Comments   
Time for another update on Entity Framework-enabled ADO.NET providers. It is my pleasure to announce that IBM has added Entity Framework support to their ADO.NET provider. The provider supports DB2, Informix and U2 databases. For more information on the Read More...
“Table Splitting”: Mapping multiple entity types to the same table.
05 December 08 03:25 PM | dpblogs | 25 Comments   
Imagine that you have a table called “Products” which contains a number of columns holding a large amount of data. For example, images of the product from above, front, and side. For most operations against instances of Products, you do not wish to pull 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...
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...
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...
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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...
Update Model – a Question of Identity – Part 2 of 3
22 July 08 09:23 AM | dpblogs | 7 Comments   
This article is Part 2 of 3 – please see http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/07/21/update-model-a-question-of-identity-part-1-of-3.aspx for Part 1. In the last article I explained the principle that the C-side updates would be non-destructive. The Read More...
Update Model – a Question of Identity – Part 1 of 3
21 July 08 11:01 AM | dpblogs | 6 Comments   
I propose to explain the reason behind some of the oddities of the “Update Model from Database” functionality and hopefully answer some common questions that come up about it. Before I get started let me note that this will be a fairly technical post Read More...
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