Over the last year Scott Mitchell has written 75 awesome data access tutorials covering ASP.NET 2.0 and VS 2005. You can read all of them for free on the www.asp.net site (VB and C# versions are provided for each tutorial). Earlier this week we published the last 9 articles in the series : Scott Mitchell...

Probably the biggest programming model improvement being made in .NET 3.5 is the work being done to make querying data a first class programming concept. We call this overall querying programming model "LINQ", which stands for .NET Language Integrated Query . Developers can use LINQ with any data source...

Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to easily model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions...

Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to easily model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions...

Scenario: You finish building a great ASP.NET application, have everything tested and working right on your local system, are taking full advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role and Profile features, and are ready to publish it to a remote hosting environment and share it with the world. Copying...

Earlier this year I posted two long data access tutorial posts. My goal was to then follow up these popular posts (90,000+ views and counting!) with a whole series around them. Unfortunately work sidetracked me and I found I didn't have the time to-do them justice... Thankfully Scott Mitchell kindly...

At TechEd this week Microsoft is going to be showing off the new VS 2005 Team Edition for Database Professional tool which is now part of the Visual Studio Team System line of products. You can learn more about it here . The first CTP build will be available to MSDN subscribers on June 11th. It provides...