Steve Lasker has some very good explanations on the thinking and the trade-offs behind SQL Server Express and SQL Server Compact in this post . If you haven't kept pace with the free Express and Compact editions of SQL Server, you really are missing...

The Windows Performance Tools Kit is now shipping along with Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 . A mouthful both, to be sure, but if you use either regularly it won't be long before they become just "xperf" and "the SDK". The...

Mike has posted Why ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka Astoria)? over on our team blog. While I generally focus on the how side of things, the why is critically important, so I encourage you to head over there, read the blog and leave your comment...

Adam Root has posted a step-by-step post on how to enable nice preview images across windows when implementing drag and drop. I haven't written on the topic in a while, but it's turned out to be a very popular source of emails even today, so I'm sure...

In the last post , I discussed what happened with regular exceptions, "unrecoverable" exceptions and WebDataServiceException. In this post I'll tackle another aspect. The service will stream results, meaning that we don't require the data source to...