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...