Earlier posts (Jan 30 & Feb 12) introduced the Entity Data Model (EDM). This model is heavily influenced by the entity/relationship idiom, incorporates entity inheritance, and may be mapped to both relational and programming language concepts. ...

The ADO.NET will be conducting a focus group on LINQ/EDM at TechEd 2007 to help define the direction of LINQ to Entities. If you are interested in participating, please check out the details below: Subject: Share your perspectives and help shape...

Last week at the Advisor Summit conference I gave a talk introducing new LINQ functionality being introduced in the Orcas timeframe (and beyond). As you probably know if you've been reading this blog regularly, LINQ functionality will begin to ship...

Continuing along with posts on the essentials of Entity Framework mapping (see Mapping 101: Part 1 ), we’ll next take a look beyond the basics of mapping containers and sets which are essential in every model and start to look at more complex scenarios...

A couple of weeks ago, the Astoria and Jasper teams sat down (separately) with Charles Torre of Channel 9 to discuss each of these new products. To view an indepth Astoria whiteboard session with Pablo Castro check out http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost...