In order to make it easier for developers to familiarize themselves with the Entity Framework, we have put together a list of some of the available resources that we found to be most useful in getting up to speed with the new tools and technologies. You can download it from our web site at http://www...

Here are my notes on the Monday morning keynote: About 3000 attendees at the conference, over 60 countries represented. There is BI in Halo3: whenever you look at competitor stats or weapon effectiveness, this is implemented using BI tech Madison - MS has acquired DATAllegro, a company that was accomplishing...

As part of my research and preparations for my presentation on the new Entity Framework at the VSLive New York conference, I came across a great tool (thanks to Kim ) for learning and playing with LINQ to Entities queries. The application (C# source code) can be downloaded from http://code.msdn.microsoft...

Part II of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group ORM comparison happened yesterday.  It started off nice and calm but ended with a bang or two.  No there were no fight or arguments between the presenters or attendees but mother nature let loose on the Phoenix area last night.  Especially...

Very Quick Note: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was released finally (in combination with .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 of course). To sum up for some people, note that VS 2008 SP1 includes ADO.NET Entity framework (and its designer) as well as ADO.NET Data Services, but NOT ASP.NEt MVC framework...

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The July July and August 2008 meetings of Southeast Valley .Net Users Group ( SEVDNUG ) will host a comparison of different Object Relational Mapper / Data Access Layer technologies. Requirements have been to established so that there is a common database and user interface to compare these technologies...

The school district I work for had an idea for an application. The need comes from several angles. First of all, lunch counts are all done by paper. Attendance is taken on paper, then it is sent to the Health Room, where tallies are made, and then everything is recorded into our Student Management System...

So I finally got WiX to create an installer for me after many hours of poor documentation, obscure errors and bizarre angle bracket syntax. The latest error I have really annoyed me as there was no obvious indication what the error was and how to resolve it, which is really the purpose of this post....

In our last post we showed what happened when you drag and drop a table onto the design surface, a fully functional (including sorting, paging, updating and deleting) SqlDataSource with T-SQL populating the command fields. While this scenario makes for a slick demo, it's not ideal. The reason I say it...