I became involved in the Side by Side and compatibility work items after making the mistake of voicing the fact that I did not like these scenarios. Life can laugh at you that way well enough on it’s own, but in Microsoft a comment like that is like playing...

I find that we have not done a good job of explaining the “knobs” used to tweak the managed connection pool (the one used by SqlClient and OracleClient), the worst knob definitely has to be the “Connection Lifetime” keyword. First of all, the name is...

"File or assembly name ‘<udtname>’, Version=1.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=389619d4c1235f8a', or one of its dependencies, was not found." If you have started using Sql Server 2005 User Defined Types it is likely that you have run into...

ADO.NET 2.0 Multiple Active Resut Sets per connection in Sql Server 2005 (MARS) FAQ Q: What is MARS? A: MARS is a new feature in ado.net 2.0 and Sql Server 2005 that allows for multiple forward only read only result sets. EDIT There is a great article...

ADO.NET 2.0 Asynchronous Command Execution (ASYNC) FAQ (DISCLAIMER: Based on Whidbey beta1 and subject to change) Before going into the Q&A below I would highly recommend reading Pablo’s excellent Async article located here: http://msdn.microsoft...