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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:29 PM

We love customers like David Hayden!

We love customers like David Hayden ! David has been spending time at the MSDN Forums (in particular the .NET Framework Data Access forum ) helping out those who've got stuck and blogging a bunch of ADO.NET 2.0 stuff. Here's a list of David's helpful
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:01 PM

Adding nesting options to DbConnectionScope.

I managed to squeeze in enough time to implement nesting options for the DbConnectionScope class. My approach was to follow the nesting option pattern given by TransactionScope, so I added a DbConnectionScopeOptions enum with Required, RequiresNew and
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Attachment(s): DbConnectionScope.cs
Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:04 PM

ADO.NET Versions and Indexing

Julia Lerman over at DevSource posted this quick article: "Someone asked me about ADO.NET indexing which encouraged me to write about some of the amazing performance tests I have done comparing VS2003 and VS2005's DataTable indexing."
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:13 PM

Fun Hash Joins with VB9 LINQ

Brian Beckman is a Software Architect in the Data Programmability team here at Microsoft. His latest post should give you a good idea of the kind if stuff he's working on - Fun Hash Joins with VB9 LINQ .
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:45 AM

Developers! - Express contest - win $10K

A new worldwide contest for developers has been launched by the folks at Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express. Here's how it goes: you think of something cool using Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express . It could be desktop app, a web
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Monday, March 13, 2006 9:53 AM

An Introduction to Data Structures

In November 2003 MSDN Online published a popular six-part series on using data structures in the .NET Framework. In 2005, the first part was updated to take advantage of the new data structures and features available with the .NET Framework version 2.0,
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:40 AM

Conversation with scientist, engineer and database legend Jim Gray

Channel 9 has posted great video interview with Jim Gray, a researcher and manager of Microsoft Research's eScience Group . "This episode features Jim Gray . He is a "Technical Fellow" in the Scaleable Servers Research Group (Sky Server, Terra Server)
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Monday, March 06, 2006 3:01 PM

10 Mistakes Developers Make With Databases

A new article published at Developer.com is worth checking out: Ten of the Biggest Mistakes Developers Make With Databases .
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Friday, March 03, 2006 10:52 PM

Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0

Jesse Liberty has written up a good article showing how to bind data into ASP.NET control over at O'Reilly's brand new ASP.NET 2.0 Training Center site: "...in the next version of the .NET Framework a great deal of the ADO.NET object model has been incorporated
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