Yesterday the Entity Framework team announced at PDC08 that they will based all their code generation on the Microsoft built-in T4 technology. This is great news as it will allow deeply customization of the generated code. If you're new to T4 you should read Scott Hanselman's post on T4 as your starting...

Microsoft offers a hands on lab (HOL) which guides you step by step through creation of a application using LINQ. As always, somebody forgot to show the VB code. Here it is Imports System.Data.Linq Imports System.Data.Linq.Mapping Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim conn As String = "Data Source=.\sqlexpress;Initial...

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It looks like Oracle has released a set of .NET database drivers and server code that runs on Windows Vista. This is really good news for those of us that work in multiple database environments. Here are the links I see right now: Vista Code: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database...

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-net.html As I was writing up the post on Oracle, I started to wonder what was happening with MySql. It appears that some things are happening. MySql has two drivers for .NET and a Visual Studio .NET plugin. The plugin was kinda cool until I read that it...

I am glad to see that Oracle is supporting the .NET framework. Well, Oracle has been supported for a long time, but its good to see more support coming directly from Oracle. They have a statement of direction with Vista: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/windows/rdbms/oraclevistasod.htm They have...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=e2c358a1-ecc4-4c49-8f65-daa6b7800eec&displaylang=en If you were a good developer, you downloaded and installed SP2 the moment that it became available because all developers are good about having the latest and greatest. Well, looks like some...

Enterprise Library 3.0 Dev CTP is available on Code Plex since yesterday :-) This CTP Highlights are : Partial Trust Support Strong - Named Binary Assemblies Validation Application Block ( check tom's blog ) SQL Server Compact Edition support Database.UpdateDatabase now support updateBatchSize parameter...

Original Post: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/12/01/515.aspx Source: http://www.databasesecurity.com/dbsec/comparison.pdf Interesting reading. I'm not a DBA, but I find the discussion very interesting. One thing that I would like to know, and I may have missed it elsewhere, is...

Ok, I missed this, but MySql has joined the MS VSIP Program. This is all very interesting, but its behind the times. Sql Server, Oracle, and DB/2 can run CLR Objects inside the database. When will MySql run CLR objects within the database? http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press-release/release_2006_29...