Data etc

By now you've read the blog posts, the documentation, and seen some of the samples. I thought I would post a quick console sample that shows some code that uses Northwind and Jasper. The code snippet below is a simple console application that does a number...

The ADO.NET team has released another incubation project as a CTP - Project Astoria. Go to http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/ of for the most up to date information. The core focus of Astoria is to "expose data as data services that can be consumed by web...

It’s here! For the last 7 months we’ve been working on Microsoft Codename Jasper. About 9 month ago Andy started thinking about what it would mean to target a language like VB.Net with the Entity Framework. After a lot of late nights, weekends, and discussions...

Developing against SQL Server 2005 using the .NET Framework 1.1 provides a decent story for developers. You won’t get the benefit of the productivity and/or light up features we implemented in 2.0 specifically for Yukon or features that target multiple...

I know that this has nothing to do about Data but I wanted to make sure that if you're not watching Arrested Development you need to start watching it! It's hand down, the funniest television show I've seen since Seinfeld. I especially like Scott Baio...

In the Whidbey release we finally provided a mechanism to retrieve metadata/schema information from a backend. It’s actually quite cool (caveat: I was the PM for this feature so that opinion might be a bit skewed) and is used throughout Visual Studio...

It's always hard to start out the first entry to you blog so I'll make it short and succint. My name is Carl Perry and I'm a Program Manager on the ADO.NET team. I've worked on the team for almost 3 years as a PM and before that worked in PSS supporting...