There's an interesting blog post by Alain , a member of the ASP.NET Atlas team. The highlights: Atlas is due to release before the end of the calendar year It'll be part of .NET Framework 3.5 (codename "Orcas") The technology will support IE, Safari, and Firefox Of course plans and...

There's an interesting blog post by Alain , a member of the ASP.NET Atlas team. The highlights: Atlas is due to release before the end of the calendar year It'll be part of .NET Framework 3.5 (codename "Orcas") The technology will support IE, Safari, and Firefox Of course plans and...

I really think Krzysztof and friends should post some guidelines in the spirit of The Framework Design Guidelines ( read: The Book You Must Read ) for lambda expressions, anonymous methods and methods, so there won't be any mixup as to what should be used. I'd hate to see people start writing long anonymous...

I really think Krzysztof and friends should post some guidelines in the spirit of The Framework Design Guidelines ( read: The Book You Must Read ) for lambda expressions, anonymous methods and methods, so there won't be any mixup as to what should be used. I'd hate to see people start writing long anonymous...

Pablo Castro re-announced the Entity Framework . The white papers are up again. A lot of people have been referring to the ADO.NET EF as an O/R mapper. And it is. But it's much more than that. The EF lets you design your conceptual model based on updateable client-side views. You can use those views...

Pablo Castro re-announced the Entity Framework . The white papers are up again. A lot of people have been referring to the ADO.NET EF as an O/R mapper. And it is. But it's much more than that. The EF lets you design your conceptual model based on updateable client-side views. You can use those views...

The new VS for DB Professionals supports generating test data for your data model. For each column, you can specify the Generator you want to use, and you have a bunch of predefined ones (numbers in a range, strings that comply with a regular Read More...

The new VS for DB Professionals supports generating test data for your data model. For each column, you can specify the Generator you want to use, and you have a bunch of predefined ones (numbers in a range, strings that comply with a regular expression, values from a list, etc, etc, etc), with a lot...

It was a good session. I totally buy MS's Data Vision. The most interesting stuff for me is the Entity Framework. At last there will be a conceptual data model that all MS products will share (Reporting, Replication, Analysis Services, ADO.NET). This is a big and important improvement in the way we used...

OK, it actually happened. We'll have two mapping technologies in .NET v.next. LinQ for SQL, previously known as DLinQ is the 'simple' mapping technology. LinQ for Entities, will be on top of the new ADO.NET Entity Framework, and will be the 'complex' (we could say 'real') mapping technology. Now, does...