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EF Support for Firebird - Beta1

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., January 6, 2009

Jiri Cincura announces Beta1 of the FIredbird ADO.NET Data Provider 2.5.0 which has support for Entity Framework. The release is imminent. Read the announcement and get the download from the Firebird...

Wallys introduction to 3.5 SP1

More Whidbey stuff, December 29, 2008

Wally McClure, MVP extraordinaire and ASP Insider, just published a short book about the new features in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. It is a short and to the point read that should get you started in no time. I ...

Community Article: Scaling ADO.NET DataTables (Beth Massi)

The Visual Basic Team, December 18, 2008

We we released a new community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by one of our MVPs, Jeff Certain, called Scaling ADO.NET DataTables. In this article Jeff shows shows us how to query...

First Look: Titanium Software Dev Kit

FTPOnline ASP.NET Channel, December 18, 2008

Appcelerator Inc. earlier this month released a public preview of Titanium SDK, an open source alternative to Adobe AIR....

When Life Takes a Detour

JohnPapa.net, December 17, 2008

Today was supposed to be the geekSpeek webcast for my ADO.NET Data Services and Silverlight topic . however life took a detour. This morning my family had a little scare and I had to rush to the h...

Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight Beta is released.

DotNetJunkies Just Published, December 16, 2008

Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight Beta is the next step towards the final release of the product. This version of the beta provides a more stable component and features a Go Live License that will ...

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services with John Papa

Andrew Conrads WebLog, December 16, 2008

On Wednesday John Papa will be giving a webcast about anything and everything you ever wanted to know when consuming Astoria Data Services from a Silverlight 2.0 app.  Should be a good one. I al...

ORM Strategies (including EF) at DotNetUmbria User Group

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., December 16, 2008

Marco Poponi will be "the EF guy" at the DotNetUmbria meeting next Friday that covers different ORM options. There will also be an Intro to ORMs, an nHibernate talk and a summary to help attendees...

geekSpeak on Wednesday: Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services

JohnPapa.net, December 16, 2008

This Wednesday at 3pm EST (12PT) I will be joining Glen Gordon and Brian Johnson for a MSDN geekSpeek webcast where we will be talking about Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services. If these pictures ar...

What is IUpdatable? Why should I care?

Andrew Conrads WebLog, December 15, 2008

Over the past few weeks I have posted a couple of samples of implementing IUpdateable for non-EF DALs so those can be used as data sources for ADO.NET Data Services.  A handful of people have ask...

Script to Inventory Print Servers

Brian Desmonds Blog, December 13, 2008

Chatting with a friend this afternoon, I was reminded of a script I have that will collect a bunch of inventory data from print servers and dump it out to a text file you can import into Excel and do ...

DataDirect Releases ADO.NET Drivers

FTPOnline ASP.NET Channel, December 12, 2008

DataDirect Technologies this week upgraded its ADO.NET database drivers, which provide connectivity between .NET-based applications and DBMSes from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase....

Most Memorable Cover Shot

JohnPapa.net, December 12, 2008

Now that my Silverlight 2 book is going to be in stores very soon Ive taken a look back at some of the books I wrote through the years. Here is a cover shot from an ADO book I coauthored eons ago. And...

Units of Work

K. Scott Allen, December 12, 2008

The Unit of Work (lets call it UoW) is another common design pattern found in persistence frameworks, but its new to many .NET developers who are just starting to use LINQ to SQL or the Entity Framewo...

RUT and RUN

RegexLib.com - Recent Patterns, December 11, 2008

Matches any-length chilean RUT (Rol Unico Tributario) and RUN (RUT (Rol Unico Nacional), with or without dots as thousand separator, and with or without hyphen as verification digit separator. Grab 1s...

Some Data with your Application Take-away, Sir?

Simple Talk, December 9, 2008

Prasanna is reminded of pizza in cardboard boxes when he explores the possibilities of Synchronization Services for ADO.NET. Data applications are becoming increasingly mobile, and often disconnected...

Survey Highlights Open Source Perceptions, Pitfalls

FTPOnline ASP.NET Channel, December 8, 2008

If you use open source software (OSS), Gartner recommends you have an official OSS policy. But a surprising number of open source adopters are operating without one....

Identity Maps

K. Scott Allen, December 8, 2008

There are a couple of important patterns in play when you use a persistence framework. These patterns have been around for quite some time but are relatively new to .NET developers who are jumping int...

ADO.NET Data Services and Silverlight at Tampa Code Camp

JohnPapa.net, December 7, 2008

Earlier today I had the opportunity to present a session at Tampa Code Camp 2008 on ADO.NET Data Services and Silverlight 2. Oh, and the code camps was a nice place to promote my new book too :-). The...

3D Silverlight Charts in SharePoint: SmartTools.Charts

Jan Tielens Bloggings [MVP], December 4, 2008

Last week I was teaching the U2U Advanced SharePoint Development course in Brussels when one of my students showed me a web part he had created. The web part showed a cool 3D chart (rendered...

Tampa Code Camp This Saturday!!!

JohnPapa.net, December 3, 2008

This Saturday is the Tampa Code Camp 2008. The session lineup looks great so far, so be sure to stop by and spend some time learning, networking and just hanging out with a great group of people. ...

lowering the adoption barrier for unit testing: doctest in python

ISerializable, December 3, 2008

One area that I didnt know about was brought to me by an attendee in one of the conferences I was in. Its a simple idea, really: write the tests for a method as part of the methods documentation. but ...

Calling UDFs from Entity Framework - Not what you might have expected

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 29, 2008

Along with Stored Procedures, you can bring UDFs into an EF Entity Data Model which also surfaces as a function in SSDL. Unlike Stored Procedures, however, a UDF is composable on the server side and...

ASP EasyForm: ASP.NET-like forms in two minutes

The Code Project Latest Articles, November 27, 2008

EasyForm allows you to create ASP.NET-like forms, with state keeping and server side event handling...

The Battle Against Lawless Database Design

Simple Talk, November 25, 2008

In which Tony becomes fascinated by the sessions he attended at the recent PASS conference called "Much Ado: A Panel discussion about Nothing". After becoming amazed by the passion and energy that a...

Silverlight and Data Communications

Rick Strahls WebLog, November 21, 2008

So Im finally getting an opportunity to work with Silverlight in a real application. I had mentioned this application in the past a few weeks back the original application architecture was created as...

Silverlight and Data Communications

Rick Strahls WebLog, November 21, 2008

So Im finally getting an opportunity to work with Silverlight in a real application. I had mentioned this application in the past a few weeks back the original application architecture was created as...

PDC Essentials @ Buenos Aires

eXtensible mind, November 19, 2008

On Tuesday 18th, Victor and I will be presenting A Lap Around VS2010. Check which other talks are available and register here. This is the event information: Horario: martes, 18 de noviembre de 2008 ...

Visual Basic en Espaa (Lisa Feigenbaum)

The Visual Basic Team, November 17, 2008

This week Jonathan Aneja and I are traveling from city to city, and presenting to VB.Net user groups in Spain. We began the tour in Barcelona where we were speaking at TechEd EMEA, and will finish in ...

Summary of the MSDN Freedom Roadshow

Jason N. Gaylords Blog, November 17, 2008

For those not at the MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, PA today, you are missed a good show. Heres what happened: David Solivan David presented a talk called UI, UX, U confused? The purpose was ...

PDC Essentials @ Buenos Aires

eXtensible mind, November 17, 2008

On Tuesday 18th, Victor and I will be presenting A Lap Around VS2010. Check which other talks are available and register here. This is the event information: Horario: martes, 18 de noviembre de 2008 ...

Using the WCF OAuth channel with an ADO.NET service

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), November 14, 2008

As I promised in my previous post "OAuth Channel for WCF RESTful services", it is now time to show this new channel in action with a real service. To make this sample more interesting, I decided to ...

Doing CRUD Operations in Silverlight 2 Against ADO.NET Data Services

WebLog of Ken Cox [MVP], November 13, 2008

Many of us have been struggling to create business-oriented (LOB) forms using Silverlight 2 and ADO.NET Data Services. There are plenty of community samples on reading data, but a dearth of real-world...

ASP.NET Data Binding

The Code Project Latest Articles, November 12, 2008

A beginner's introduction to data binding that includes: Simple (ie. fields) Data Binding, Complex (list and datagrid), and database access using ADO.NET...

Entity Framework and Read Stored Procedures - a new perspective

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 12, 2008

A few years ago at DevConnections I had a long talk with Gert Drapers (from the SQL Server team) about EF when it was still in an early beta. I'm now at DevConnections in Las Vegas and caught up wi...

CSS Compatibility updated

QuirksBlog, November 11, 2008

I’ve updated the CSS Compatibility Table as the first step in a complete update of all Tables. Frankly, this was one of the more boring updates I’ve ever done.I tested four browsers: IE8-as-IE7 (in ba...

We made it to OpenForce

DotNetNuke Developer - DotNetNuke Core Team Member and Excellent Programmer, November 11, 2008

So we made the trek to Las Vegas today, the long grueling trek it is. We even adopted a kid today (more like a father ;), Scott Spradlin joined the Engage team on our flight and cab ride to the hotel!...

Announcing ShadowCamp

.Avery Blog, November 11, 2008

There are more and more one-day local events every year, and each time people come into town, go to the event, then meander home sometime on Sunday. A couple months ago I had the idea to run a separa...

DevDinnerOnDemand: Overview of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Federal Developer Weblog, November 10, 2008

With the .NET Framework 3.5 (the version native to Visual Studio 2008) coming up on its first anniversary, Microsoft is poised to release the first update to the framework in the form of Service Pa...

TreeView in a ComboBox dropdown using RadControls for Silverlight

the telerik blogs, November 8, 2008

As far as I can tell from the experience of my colleagues with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, one of the common feature requests for RadComboBox and RadTreeView is combining them into one piece. Recent...

Chapters 2-9 are on RoughCuts, here's the full chapter list

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 7, 2008

While the entire book is now in production, so far Chapters 2-9 have made it into the RoughCuts version. Here's a full chapter list. THere are still "working titles" on a few of the chapters. ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Entity Framework

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 4, 2008

In the original version of Douglas Adams famed book, "42" was the answer to everything. Actually it was a typo. What he meant was "V2". ...

Article published at dotnetslackers.com

Patrik Löwendahls shout, November 1, 2008

I just an article published over at dotnetslackers.com. Check it out: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ado_net/Modeling-domains-with-The-Entity-Data-Model.aspx Trackback link: http://...

Vista SP2 Goes Out in Limited Beta

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News, October 29, 2008

Microsoft will release a beta of the second service pack for Vista "to a small group of Technology Adoption Program customers."...

Announcing Enterprise Library 4.1

Federal Developer Weblog, October 29, 2008

Hi Everyone! Our Architecture Patterns and Practices team just announced the latest revision for Enterprise Library! Quick Links:           &nbs...

Custom membership provider for the ADO.NET Entity Framework

The Code Project Latest Articles, October 29, 2008

Custom membership provider implementation for the ADO.NET Entity Framework....

SQLAuthority News - Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, October 2008

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, October 27, 2008

Microsoft ADOMD.NETADOMD.NET is a Microsoft .NET Framework object model that enables software developers to create client-side applications that browse metadata and query data stored in Microsoft SQL ...

Day of Silverlight 2 Recap

JohnPapa.net, October 25, 2008

Today I went to Tampa and presented a Day of Silverlight 2 with Data Access at the Microsoft office. It was a free event and I like to think everyone was there to see my presentation, but it could als...

REST and Workflow services play well together

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), October 24, 2008

REST is not just about CRUD interfaces for your services, a complete long-running workflow can be modeled through the basic verbs as well. As my friend Jesus mentioned, the article "How to get a cup ...

Austin Dev Conference - Follow up...

Federal Developer Weblog, October 24, 2008

Per our promise below is all material from the conference: Building WPF Applications in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend - deck, code Overview of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 – deck, code...

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