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- MSDN Webcast: A Lap Around the Entity Framework from the DBA's Viewpoint (Level 300 )
- The Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework is a data technology that ships as part of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. The Entity Framework enables application developers to define domain models against which they can perform CRUD operations with very expressive query capabilities. The presenter of this webcast investigates how the Entity...
- Webcasts 2009-04-27
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- Microsoft Oslo shifting to the data side
- Last year, I heard Brian Loesgen compared Oslo, Microsoft's modeling strategy, to an onion, with many layers of features. Lately, it appears there is another layer to Oslo forming, which ties the platform closer to Microsoft's data programmability stack. Darryl Taft reveals that Microsoft has been shifting...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Level 200)
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 introduce a wide variety of new features for targeting Windows, the Microsoft Office system, and the Web. This includes more controls, a streamlined setup, improved startup performance, fresh graphics features, improved Asynchronous JavaScript and XML AJAX support,...
- Webcasts 2009-01-22
- Explore the Data Access Options in Visual Studio 2008: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Give Developers Substantially Increased Data Access Options
- In Visual Studio 2008 running on the .NET framework 3.5, developers can not only create DataReaders and DataSets; Microsoft has also added LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and ADO.NET Data Services, which leverages the first two. These new options of course, mean that the developer has new syntaxes to learn....
- White papers 2008-11-03
- Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote
- Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence voteSounds like the testers and MS are doing good work[i]The best thing that happened in response to this latest action is that the Entity Framework team responded to it immediately[/i]Good for the testers for demanding better, and good for MS for responding immediately....
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote
- A number of testers who've been dabbing with the first version of Microsoft's ADO.Net Entity Framework are unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken with the technology -- so much so that they've created a "no confidence vote" petition to make their gripes public. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 SP-1 (Windows)
- This download installs Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 includes support for SQL Server 2008, new ADO.NET features such as the Entity Framework, improvements to the WPF designers, WCF templates for Silverlight projects, debugger support for the .NET Framework public symbols and source release, control improvements such...
- Software downloads 2008-06-04
- Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5
- Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5Would have been great a few weeks ago for me[b]The .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 also both add support for the ADO.Net Entity Framework. The framework service pack also adds support for ADO.Net Data Services, and the...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5
- Microsoft is making available to testers a first beta release of Service Pack SP 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5. On May 12, Microsoft made available to any/all interested parties the first beta bits for both VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- MSDN Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Using the Microsoft Data Platform for Easy Data Access With SQL Server 2008 (Level 100)
- This webcast looks at Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a productive data platform. It uses Contoso Container Overseas Shipping Operation LTD as the scenario customer while it explores the features that make SQL Server 2008 this platform. Contoso is a shipping company; they arrange the shipping of all kinds of...
- Webcasts 2008-03-03
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Jasper
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projects
- Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projectsSQL Server Katmai Adopts Orpaned Entity FrameworkLet's hope that adding the Entity Data Platform to SQL Server Katmai doesn't delay the ADO.NET Entity Framework/Entity Data Model/EDM Designer past 2008H1.--rjIt all sounds like a lot of vapourware to me...... all this cr*p about "The cloud"...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projects
- Microsoft has a lot of database pilots and projects in the works, among them Katmai, Astoria, Jasper and Volta. But how do they all fit together? Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server, explained to me this week how Microsofts growing number of data-programmability pieces will come together...
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Jasper: Dynamic languages meet dynamic database development
- Its code name central at Mix 07 in Las Vegas this week. On May 2 at Microsofts Web 2.0 conference, officials are set to put "Jasper," a k a "Dynamic ADO.Net," through its paces. In a session entitled "Rapidly Building Data Driven Web Pages with Dynamic ADO.Net," Microsoft officials...
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Astoria: Another piece of Microsoft's cloud programming model revealed
- On Monday at Mix 07, Microsoft revealed yet another piece of its puzzling cloud-programming puzzle: "Astoria." Astoria is a set of patterns and infrastructure for Web data services, explained Pablo Castro, technical lead with Microsofts database group. Castro showed off Microsofts Astoria work during his session on "Accessing...
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- MSDN Webcast: MSDN geekSpeak: Julie Lerman on ADO.NET (Level 200)
- The presenter of this webcast, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional MVP, discusses the next version of ADO.NET, which presents a host of new ways to interact with data in the Microsoft .NET applications. The attendee will learn how the ADO.NET Entity Framework provides for abstracted access to the data, client...
- Webcasts 2007-03-14
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