The Microsoft SQL Server team is working on a portal page that brings together common resources and community links for all data access providers to Microsoft SQL Server. We’d like your feedback on how useful you will find it and what else you’d...

A common question the Entity Framework team hears is how to store a set of self-tracking entities in ViewState for an ASP.NET application. There are a number of options for where to store state information in an ASP.NET and I’d recommend this article...

We are excited to share the latest revision of the Entity Framework sample provider for SQL Server. You can find in on Code Gallery here . All existing providers built for Entity Framework 3.5 will work with Entity Framework 4.0 unchanged, however...

Developers using the .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC, the .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB, or the NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server often send feedback to Microsoft, asking for a complete list of the exceptions that a given method...

In Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0, the Entity Framework team added a T4 template for generating self-tracking entities to provide an easier experience building N-tier applications that need to send entities with changes between tiers. Since we first...

A while ago, we, the core ADO.NET team, sent out a survey in order to gather your feedback about some suggestions and future ideas for our products. Now, it’s more than time to share the results with you. We had a total of 559 respondents, most from Europe...

In a previous post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/08/05/improvements-to-the-generated-sql-in-net-4-0-beta1.aspx ), we talked about the improvements to the quality and the readability of the SQL generated when querying using the Entity Framework...