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Should LINQ to SQL Go Open Source
More and more, LINQ to SQL is being seen as a temporary solution. With the impending release of ADO.NET Entity Framework, a lot of people are worried that development on LINQ to SQL will fall by the wayside. With Microsoft's long history of developing and discarding database access technologies, these concerns are not without merit. So this raises the question, "Should LINQ to SQL Go Open Source?"
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ADO.NET Entity Framework Taking Some Heat
A petition has started by the community to express concerns over Microsoft's upcoming release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The petition titled "ADO.NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence", aims to raise awareness of design and implementation issues foreseen by experts in the industry.
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Merge, Replace, or Patch: How Astoria Handles Changing Data
Using REST, what should happen when you perform a PUT operation to update existing data? The Astoria Team asks that question and explains their answer.
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IdeaBlade announces DevForce EF beta for building Rich Internet Applications
Recently IdeaBlade announced DevForce EF which builds upon the Microsoft Entity Framework and will provide support for Silverlight.
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Presentation: Introduction to Spring.NET
Dr. Mark Pollack, founder of Spring.NET, provides an introduction focused on implementing and designing loosely coupled application architectures.
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Digging into the Performance of the ADO.NET Entity Framework
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.
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Free ADO.NET Performance Improvements in .NET 2.0 SP 1
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.
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Microsoft Releases December CTP of Project Astoria
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.
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Vendors Line Up Behind ADO.NET Entity Framework
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.
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ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP - ASP.NET MVC, Data Services, Dynamic Data and Silverlight Support
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.
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Microsoft is Ready to Go Offline : Introduces Sync Framework
Microsoft introduced their synchronization platform known as the Microsoft Sync Framework. This framework allows developers to create off-line applications, devices and services that will integrate any type of data with any application.
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Microsoft Entity Framework Beta 2 and Entity Framework Tools Beta 1 CTP Released
The Microsoft Entity Framework allows developers to close the gap between objects and our data stores. The second beta of the Microsoft Entity Framework is available now for developers to get a jump-start on exposing your data models as objects. This release also comes with the first beta of the Entity Framework Tools providing a graphical front-end to your entity data objects.
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The Curious Nature of Transactions in ADO.NET and LINQ
Transactions in LINQ rely on TransactionScope, a .NET 2.0 class that uses a distinctly non-OO design pattern that relies on gloabls.
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Jasper: ORM without Code Generators or Configuration Files
Jasper is Microsoft's new ORM project designed for rapid application development. And unlike earlier Microsoft projects, this one does not require code generators. The goal? To "make the experience of developing quick and dirty database apps one that is truly quick and clean."
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DB2 and Visual Studio
Last week we talked about Oracle's support for Visual Studio. Well they are not the only ones who see the need to integrate with VS. IBM's DB2 for .NET offers both ADO.NET drivers and Add-ins for Visual Studio.