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...