We’re gearing up for the next release of the SQL Server, and we are looking for people that have a passion for building great data access technologies and frameworks to help with the effort. We have been very busy recently releasing: · Microsoft .NET...

It's settled! The Entity Framework (and the Entity Designer) along with ADO.NET Data Services will RTM as part of the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 releases! Unfortunately, we don't have official release dates at this point, but stay tuned. You...

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...

The “Update Model from Database” feature in the CTP2 of the EDM designer is greatly improved in the next designer release. It now supports iterative development scenarios by adding new database tables and columns to the schema, correctly handling type...