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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...

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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

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

Coming soon to LINQ to SQL
21 February 08 11:28 AM | dpblogs | 34 Comments   

LINQ to SQL went gold a few months ago with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. It has been somewhat quiet since then – and as we near the launch of Visual Studio 2008, you may be wondering what we have been up to. Things aren’t Read More...

Filed under: LINQ to SQL

New ADO.NET Team Members - Part 2
04 December 07 03:18 PM | dpblogs | 9 Comments   

Hi – I’m Faisal Mohamood and I’m a Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and Object Services for Entity Framework. I’m a fairly recent addition to the team, and prior to this I was Program Manager on the Visual Studio Platform team, looking after parts of MSBuild Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, LINQ to SQL