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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:57 PM

Quick update re: Data Access blog.

We're putting this blog (Data Access blog) into suspended animation. That doesn't mean we will stop blogging about ADO.NET and data access stuff, or that we'll take down published posts or comments here - it's just means we'll carry on blogging about
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:54 PM

ADO.NET and SQL Server Everywhere

Steve Lasker has posted a screencast / video over on Channel 9 providing an overview on the various ADO.NET programming options available for SQL Server Everywhere, including an updateable resultset (SqlCeResultSet). While on the subject, check out the
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:24 PM

What I Wish Developers Knew About 'x' in / for SQL Server 2005 (webcasts)

Database Journal has a good list of some upcoming SQL Server related live webcasts scheduled for July (on MSDN and TechNet): Some that should be of interest for developers using ADO.NET: What I Wish Developers Knew About Writing Queries in SQL Server
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Friday, June 23, 2006 9:45 PM

ADO.NET vNext - feedback so far

Since announcing our ADO.NET vNext plans at TechEd last week, the team has been on the lookout for your feedback on where we heading with the next release. This post is a round up of some of the comments / feedback we've heard. It's certainly not all
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Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:59 AM

ADO.NET vNext screencast

Hi - I'm Shyam Pather, Development Lead on the ADO.NET vNext team. I’m incredibly excited to share some demos of ADO.NET vNext in action. By now, many of you may have read the whitepapers and blog entries describing the new features. In this pair of screencasts
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:51 AM

ADO.NET vNext: The Entity Framework, LINQ and more

Once you are done with shipping large products such as SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 you’d expect to have a quiet time for a while, slow down a bit, that kind of stuff… Turns out that it wasn’t the case this time. Right after SQL Server 2005
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Friday, April 14, 2006 9:11 PM

Lightweight Promotable Transactions, SqlDataReader and Commitment.

Here's a small issue you may need to watch out for when using a System.Transactions transaction with SqlClient v2.0 and Sql Server 2005. This combination is required to get LWPTs. The basics of LWPTs have been pretty widely discussed (here's an example:
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:17 AM

Data Access with Visual Basic 2005 (Webcast)

Register to watch this : MSDN Webcast: Data Access with Visual Basic 2005 (Level 200) Start Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:00 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) End Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:00 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US &
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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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