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Mark Pollack provides an introduction to Spring.NET which can help developers more easily implement and design loosely coupled application architectures. The core concepts in the Spring Framework extend beyond the Java platform and are applicable to .NET. Spring.NET combines the Spring Framework's proven architectural concepts and patterns with additional features specific to .NET.
Table-valued parameters are a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2008. They provide a built-in way to send multiple rows of data from a client application to SQL Server in a single parameterized SQL statement.
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 provides increased support for occasionally connected clients through an enhanced DataSet designer, integrating ADO.NET Sync Services and SQL Server 2008 Change Data Capture.
Recently IdeaBlade announced DevForce EF which builds upon the Microsoft Entity Framework and will provide support for Silverlight.
The ADO.NET Team recently discussed various performance aspects of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The ADO.NET Entity Framework entered its third beta back in December and since that time the team has provided developers with information about using the framework but now they are providing developers with the performance aspects.
Service Pack 1 for .NET 2.0 includes significant performance improvements for ADO.NET. We say they improvements are free because the changes do not require recompiling the code, any user installing the service pack should see at least some gains.
Microsoft has announced the December CTP of Project Astoria, whose new name is the ADO.NET Data Services Framework, is available now as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview release.
Eight vendors have are planning to release drivers for ADO.NET Entity Framework within three months of RTM. IBM, MySQL AB, and a host for 3rd party vendors are targeting databases such as DB2, MySQL, and Oracle.
Yesterday, Microsoft published the long-awaited first ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP (Customer Technology Preview). The extensions package includes the ASP.NET MVC Framework, AJAX improvements, Dynamic Data support, Silverlight support, and ADO.NET Data Services.
