There has been a variety of responses to the post on L2S futures in the last couple of days. Let me start by saying sorry for the radio silence since the post but, as Elisa mentioned,  we posted it while at PDC and were focusing on the interactions...

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...

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...

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...

I always enjoy making announcements regarding external providers releasing their Entity Framework-enabled ADO.NET providers. It is my pleasure to announce that Npgsql has released a version 2.0 of their ADO.NET provider for PostgreSQL , which includes...

Since the release of the Entity Framework, we have received a number of requests for details and best practices from customers who are looking at migrating their LINQ to SQL based applications to the Entity Framework.  In order to address this topic...