The .NET Rocks! Show had Shawn Wilderman as their guest last week. Shawn is the Microsoft C# MVP who runs ADO.NET Guy : "Carl and Richard interview Shawn Wildermuth about ADO.NET. He's down on datasources as a one-size-fits-all solution to data...

Mark Scurrell, Program Manager on the WinFS Sync team has provided an overview on the WinFS blog of the functionality provided to allow applications to synchronize data between WinFS stores: "For Beta 2 we have decided to focus on providing the...

In SQL Server 2005, we now have the ability to write managed (or CLR) code inside a Stored Procedure. This implies that you now have the capability to connect to a remote or the local SQL Server with ADO.NET via the System.Data assembly. When doing so...

After two betas and 6 months of customer feedback the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver is generally available for download here – http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/jdbc . Our core goal with this new driver is to demonstrate our long-term commitment to providing...

First of all I’ll have to apologize because it took me several months to put this code out here. Right after PDC we were so busy that I didn’t have the chance before to sit down, clean-up the code a little bit, add a bunch of comments and write a README...