For those of you who have already put your feet into the waters of .NET 3.5 SP1, you have probably seen some amazing things with ADO.NET Data Services coupled to the Entity Framework. But that coupling may lead to blindness. Allow me to explain. [continue to article: Images as a Service with ADO.NET...

I just finished an article on my favorite new topic, ADO.NET Data Services... There's not a sample download at the end (like their normally is) because of it being in beta, and I'm pretty tired, so it might not sound great... let me know what you think. Here's the URL: http://www.singingeels.com/Articles...

I've been getting into ADO.NET Data Services (code name "Astoria"), and there is a great question about how you think it will be used the most... I said my peace, don't be shy! If you're the kind of person who complains after a launch that Microsoft is missing something, then now's your chance to give...

Crazy title for a blog post? Maybe... but that's exactly what Jonathan Carter (and the Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism team at Microsoft) has just released a complete package training kit for. It has the following 6 hands on labs: ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Entity Framework ASP.NET AJAX...

For those of you who have been living under a rock, here is the ADO.NET team announcement of fresh bits of next generation data access stuff. To be honest I'm really glad that the team found another release vehicle. A lot of people I've been talking to lately made it very clear to me that they have lost...

Andrew Conrad announced project "Jasper" earlier this week at Mix '07. Jasper is different from typical O/R frameworks that often require data classes to be written by hand, or generated at development-time using a tool. Jasper on the other hand connects to the database, determines the database schema...

Frans has finally pulled the discussion out of SOA land back to DB land. With his post " Why change-tracking has to be part of an entity object ." I'm looking at the original post that started this debate, and I must say that it sounds like everyone is blowing everything out of proportion...

URL: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/10/11/647.aspx This video (screencast) for the podcast is on the subject of the Basics of Building Sql Server 2005 CLR Objects The WMV and MP4 (for video iPod users) files are in the feed.

I have been working with the ADO.NET Entities Data Model for ORM and I am very impressed. I'd been working with Data Sets and Table Adapters, so was excited about diving into the new release of ADO.NET Entities Data Model. I found some excellent tutorials published in October 2008 (so they're fairly...

LINQ will transform the architectures around us and make the traditional data access layer irrelevant. Kris Vandermotten wrote a few lines about this here and here .