Check out the Epicor Case Study that was recently published by one of our partners. Epicor is a global software company that creates enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for manufacturing firms and other customers. They have been able to leverage Visual Studio 2010 and ADO.NET Entity Framework...

A previous post discussed potential issues with Compiled Query recompiles. The cause of the recompile issues were actually uncovered by using the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler . This blog will cover how the Profiler can be used to discover performance issues in the Entity Framework. The sample code from...

When calling a query multiple times with Entity Framework the recommended approach is to use compiled LINQ queries. Compiling a query results in a performance hit the first time you use the query but subsequent calls execute much faster. The CompiledQuery class has functionality to compile and assist...

Welcome to the SQL Server Data and Modeling Customer Advisory Team (DM CAT) blog. Our team assists customers in adopting Microsoft’s Data Development Technology and shares the knowledge we gain with the rest of the Microsoft community. You can look forward to seeing posts offering guidance and best practices...

Author: Dana Kaufman Reviewers: James Podgorski, Jaime Alva Bravo, Chris Sells, Matthew Snider, David Miller, Scott Roberts Introduction One of the major new WCF features in .NET 4 is the Routing Service which is a configurable WCF-based service that supports content-based routing and protocol...