Elisa Flasko's Blog

Ok, so I'm sitting in a session at DevTeach in Montreal right now... and someone mentioned to me that they didn't know of any Entity Framework Providers (outside of SQL) that had actually released yet... and I realized that I never got around to posting...

DevTeach aims offers TechEd like content and high calibre, TechEd speakers to Canadians, without traveling all the way to the US! Check out sessions across 8 different tracks (including a couple of really great sessions by myself and Carl Perry on the...

We've waited a good long while, but RTM is finally here for both the ADO.NET Entity Framework as well as ADO.NET Data Services! Both are now available as part of the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (tools and runtime) and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (for just the runtime...

There has recently been an interesting thread in the community going on about a "vote of no confidence" for the first version of the Entity Framework, and Tim Mallalieu has posted a complete response, detailing how our team is working to address...

Taking a page from the Astoria team... We're opening up the EF :) Today really marked the beginning of our work on Entity Framework V2 and as part of that, we were able to extend the very successful transparent design process that we have been using for...

This morning at TechEd, Microsoft announced Project "Velocity" an explicit, distributed, in-memory application cache platform. Project “Velocity” increases performance of applications, by moving the data out of the data store, and closer to the application...

The most recent versions of the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta and ADO.NET Data Services Beta are now available ! Both the Entity Framework and Data Services have now officially become part of the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 releases...

We all develop applications that in some way retrieve or manipulate data... and now there are so many different technologies to choose from! Looking for a good place to find information on Data Development? I've been working with this great to new...

What do these all have in common? On Wednesday, David Treadwell posted to the Windows Live blog, giving a sneak peek into what you can expect to hear more about next week Mix08. "At MIX we are enabling several new Live services with AtomPub endpoints...

How great was the LA Launch kickoff event on Wednesday? It seemed to be a good time for those that got in. The sold out event began with Steve Ballmer's keynote at the Nokia Theater and continued through the day at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Most...

Wondering when you'll get to use the new SQL 2008 Data Types with LINQ to SQL? Check out a new post by the ADO.NET Team that talks about the work they are currently doing. http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/02/21/coming-soon-to-linq-to-sql.aspx

This morning Microsoft made a pretty big announcement. We announced that we would implement 4 new interoperability principles across many of our products including Vista and the .NET Framework, that will impact product development, documentation , and...

With the recently announced AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft, an open-sources dev tool, developers building World of Warcraft add-ons can get the Visual Studio experience without requiring any version of Visual Studio to be installed or licensed. ...

Well I'm posting this a bit late, as it's been a crazy week, but on Sunday evening we released the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview including ADO.NET Data Services (also known as Project "Astoria"). Get the download here . More information here and here...

It's Here!! The Entity Framework Beta 3 and Entity Framework Tools CTP 2 have released. Both of these releases now run on top of the Visual Studio 2008 RTM. For more info... including breaking changes, features, etc. check out the ADO.NET Team blog post...

The first CTP of Microsoft's New SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is now available. The PHP Driver will deliver an API designed-to-enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications deployed on the Windows platform. For more on the...

This morning at ZendCon, Bill Staples announced the upcoming availability of the first CTP of Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP. The PHP Driver will deliver an API designed-to-enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications...

A Beta 2 compatible version of Astoria is finally here! The Astoria team has just released a refresh of the Astoria Prototype CTP to work with Visual Studio Beta 2 and the Entity Framework Beta 2. The Astoria September 2007 CTP is available here . For...

Today, the ADO.NET team announced the release of the long awaited Entity Framework Beta 2 and the NEW Entity Framework Tools CTP1 . More information about both releases, and the features that have been included and/or improved for this release, is available...

Today is a big day! Last May at Mix07, we announced Project Codename "Astoria", a project designed to "enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within corporate networks and across the Internet". Alongside...

I've long been a fan of using VS to edit XML files (ok so just since VS 2005, it seems like a long time though... I was convinced when I realized I didn't have to pay extra for another program)... then again... I am kind of biased now that I'm on the...

Today is the day! Today at Mix, my team is announcing two new incubation projects that we have been working on for the last few months. Both CTPs went live this morning and will be announced during our sessions beginning this afternoon. Project Codename...

If you've had a chance to browse through the session listing for Mix 07 (next week in Las Vegas), you're probably getting pretty excited to hear what some of these sessions are really going to say. If you haven't had a chance to look, or you just want...

Well I've already written 2 posts about this keynote for my team blogs ( data and ADO.NET ), so I don't want to write too much... but there are some great screencasts to check out... During his presentation Britt talked a lot about Conceptual Data Programming...

I've seen a good number of questions from people about the LINQ to Entities Samples in the Orcas March CTP and why they just don't seem to work... Check out Erick Thompson's post for the 4 easy steps to get the samples back up and running.