This week at Mix 07, Shyam Pather and Sam Druker will present Microsoft Codename “Jasper”, an ADO.NET incubation project for building quick, clean and iterative applications! Building data-serving applications can be cumbersome and time consuming, requiring...

Today at Mix 07, the ADO.NET team will speak for first time about an incubation project that they have been working on, Project Codename "Astoria". With the announcement of Microsoft Silverlight and technologies like AJAX, a new wave of web applications...

Microsoft is deepening its investment in the ADO.NET Entity Framework as a critical piece of Microsoft’s Data Platform vision. Based on the need to align with requirements from key internal partners that are building on the Entity Framework, along with...

Late last week, after bits had been finalized, we found a bug in the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Wizard that shipped with Visual Studio “Orcas” beta 1. The problem has now been corrected. Please download and install the patch available at: http:/...

What else do you need to know about the Entity Framework? We've documented basic syntax and provided a few samples. How can we improve the documentation? Send us scenarios you want to implement. Orcas Beta 1 contains the ADO.NET Entity Framework...

Orcas Beta 1 is available for download! Check out the Visual Studio Downloads page for more info.

Daniel Simmons, ADO.NET Dev Lead, recently sat down with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks to talk in depth about the new ADO.NET Entity Framework. Check out Show #226 and learn more about Microsoft's vision for the Entity Framework long...