ADO.NET team blog : Sybase

Sybase's SQL Anywhere ADO.NET Provider Supports the ADO.NET Entity Framework!

dpblogs — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:13:00 GMT

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 SQL Anywhere 11 release, please see the following announcement on the Sybase web site:

http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1057559

Congratulations to everyone else at Sybase who contributed to the release!

Enjoy!

David Sceppa

ADO.NET Program Manager

Entity Framework Provider Updates

dpblogs — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:31:00 GMT

Greetings from TechEd!

We've updated the ADO.NET Entity Framework Sample Provider for .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta and posted it at the MSDN Code Gallery site. You can download the sample provider here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFSampleProvider

Yesterday we held a chalk talk session with many of our provider writer partners. The theater was so full with attendees that we ran out of seats. Representatives from DataDirect, IBM, Oracle and Sybase were in attendance. Over the course of the chalk talk, we addressed a number of general questions before attendees spoke directly with the representatives from the various provider writers. DataDirect announced that they will release an update to their Oracle ADO.NET provider to support the Entity Framework in Q3 of 2008. Both IBM and Sybase demonstrated their provider's accessing their data stores via the Entity Framework.

Reggie Burnett, the lead developer for the MySQL ADO.NET provider, was unable to attend but asked me pass along the following information:

"In the next few days we will be making available a pre-release of version 5.3 with preliminary support for the entity framework as it is found in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta. We are firmly committed to supporting this technology and are actively working on it."

David Sceppa

ADO.NET Program Manager

The ADO.NET Entity Framework - Not Just For SQL Server!

dpblogs — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:40:00 GMT

As you're hopefully aware, Beta 3 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework is already available. If not, see the ADO.NET team blog here.

You may not be aware of the various ADO.NET provider writers who are publicly pledging their support for the Entity Framework. You can read the entire press release, including information about ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Project Astoria) and ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions here. In terms of third party provider involvement, here are the highlights:

Providers Targeting Publicly Available Versions Within Three Months of RTM

· Core Lab - Providing connectivity to Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases

· IBM - Providing connectivity to both IBM DB2 data server and Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) databases

· MySQL AB - Providing connectivity to MySQL databases

· Npgsql - Providing connectivity to PostgreSQL database versions 7.3+ and 8.x

· OpenLink Software - Providing connectivity to Oracle, Informix, Ingres, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Progress and Microsoft SQL Server databases, and any data source accessible via OpenLink ODBC or JDBC bridge drivers

· Phoenix Software International - Providing connectivity to SQLite databases

· Sybase - Providing connectivity to SQL Anywhere databases

· VistaDB Software - Providing connectivity to VistaDB databases

* - The providers in the list above are also working towards publicly available versions of their providers to work with Beta 3 of the Entity Framework.

Providers Targeting Publicly Available Versions in 2008

· DataDirect Technologies - Providing connectivity to multiple data stores including Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and DB2 via DataDirect Connect® for ADO.NET

· Firebird - Providing connectivity to Firebird databases

If you're writing an ADO.NET provider for the Entity Framework and you're not already in touch with me, please drop me a line at David (dot) Sceppa (at) microsoft (dot) com.

David Sceppa

ADO.NET Program Manager

Microsoft Corporation