David Sceppa's Ramblings

It's been a great ride these past fourteen years. I've loved my time at Microsoft and am proud of the projects I've been fortunate enough to be a part of, from helping PSS get ready for the launch of Visual FoxPro 3.0, through my time in Visual Basic...

Here are a few quick announcements about ADO.NET providers supporting the Entity Framework. Enjoy! Core Lab (Connectivity to Multiple Data Stores) Core Lab was the first ADO.NET provider writer to support Beta 3 of the Entity Framework. Their...

As you're hopefully aware, Beta 3 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework is already available. If not, see the ADO.NET team blog here . You may not be aware of the various ADO.NET provider writers who are publicly pledging their support for the Entity Framework...

We've updated the sample provider to work with Beta 3 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The sample provider is available for download as an attachment to this blog post. The sample provider has undergone some minor changes in moving from Beta 2 to Beta...

Last month I delivered a WebCast that covered the new data access features coming in the next wave of developer technologies, namely LINQ (including LINQ to DataSet, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities), the ADO.NET Entity Framework and SQL Server 2008. That...

We've updated the sample provider to work with Beta 2 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The sample provider is available for download as an attachment to this blog post. The sample provider has undergone some minor changes in moving from Beta 1 to Beta...

TechEd was a major success. Every time I turned around, more people were asking questions about LINQ and the Entity Framework, though that might have had something to do with the fact that I was standing next to a sign that said "LINQ / Entity Framework...

Oracle has just released a new beta of their .NET provider, commonly known as ODP.NET. This is great news for developers who have been pleading for support for Oracle's instant client or for more ASP.NET features. You can read more about the new features...

Oracle will be in attendance at the ADO.NET Entity Framework provider writer chalk talk at TechEd 2007 in Orlando. The chalk talk will be held Friday June 8th at 1pm in Blue Theater 12. Here's what Oracle's ODP.NET team asked me to pass along regarding...

At TechEd 2007 in Orlando, there will be a chalk talk on ADO.NET Entity Framework, specifically focusing on the provider model and integration with third-party databases. The chalk talk will be held Friday June 8th at 1pm in Blue Theater 12. I’m pleased...

We've updated the sample provider to work with Beta 1 of Orcas. The sample provider is available for download as an attachment to this blog post. Within the Entity Framework, the command tree, expression and related classes in Beta 1 now include the...

Last week, I attended the MySQL conference in Santa Clara and delivered a presentation on ADO.NET 2.0. It was great to talk to developers building applications targeting MySQL databases via ADO.NET. One developer stayed after my session to comment on...