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I've been sort of under a rock for a while, but I thought I'd come out for a minute to celebrate. Today we made available .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. There are two components in the release I spent a bunch of time on, which interestingly Read More...

The news are out. The ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Astoria) and the ADO.NET Entity Framework will be shipping as part of .NET 3.5 SP1, and the Beta 1 release is now available . All the official blogs discussed the details already, including the Astoria Read More...

There are fresh news about ADO.NET provider support here , and there is an official looking statement from last December with more details here . The ADO.NET Entity Framework is designed so that the upper layers of the system are database-independent. Read More...

We just released the December 2007 CTP of Project Astoria, or I guess I should say the ADO.NET Data Services framework as Mike pointed out . This is an important milestone for Astoria, as this is the first release that is based on the real, production Read More...