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We're putting this blog (Data Access blog) into suspended animation. That doesn't mean we will stop blogging about ADO.NET and data access stuff, or that we'll take down published posts or comments he...
Steve Lasker has posted a screencast / video over on Channel 9 providing an overview on the various ADO.NET programming options available for SQL Server Everywhere, including an updateable r...
Database Journal has a good list of some upcoming SQL Server related live webcasts scheduled for July (on MSDN and TechNet):
Some that should be of interest for developers using ADO.NET:
What I Wish ...
Since announcing our ADO.NET vNext plans at TechEd last week, the team has been on the lookout for your feedback on where we heading with the next release. This post is a round up of some of the comme...
Hi - I'm Shyam Pather, Development Lead on the ADO.NET vNext team.
Im incredibly excited to share some demos of ADO.NET vNext in action. By now, many of you may have read the whitepapers and blog...
Once you are done with shipping large products such as SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 youd expect to have a quiet time for a while, slow down a bit, that kind of stuff
Turns out that it wasnt ...
Once you are done with shipping large products such as SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 youd expect to have a quiet time for a while, slow down a bit, that kind of stuff
Turns out that it wasnt ...
So, Now that we are talking about the upcoming ADO.NET Entity Framework, I thought it would be interesting to do a screencast on our mapping infrastructure. If you have seen our ADO.NET architecture d...
Here's a small issue you may need to watch out for when using a System.Transactions transaction with SqlClient v2.0 and Sql Server 2005. This combination is required to get LWPTs.
The basics of ...
Register to watch this:
MSDN Webcast: Data Access with Visual Basic 2005 (Level 200)
Start Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:00 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
End Ti...
We love customers like David Hayden!
David has been spending time at the MSDN Forums (in particular the .NET Framework Data Access forum) helping out those who've got stuck and blogging a bunch of ADO...
I managed to squeeze in enough time to implement nesting options for the DbConnectionScope class. My approach was to follow the nesting option pattern given by TransactionScope, so I added a DbC...
Julia Lerman over at DevSource posted this quick article:
"Someone asked me about ADO.NET indexing which encouraged me to write about some of the amazing performance tests I have done comparing VS20...
Brian Beckman is a Software Architect in the Data Programmability team here at Microsoft.
His latest post should give you a good idea of the kind if stuff he's working on - Fun Hash Joins with VB9 LIN...
A new worldwide contest for developers has been launched by the folks at Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express.
Here's how it goes: you think of something cool using Visual Studio E...
In November 2003 MSDN Online published a popular six-part series on using data structures in the .NET Framework. In 2005, the first part was updated to take advantage of the new data structu...
Channel 9 has posted great video interview with Jim Gray, a researcher and manager of Microsoft Research's eScience Group.
"This episode features Jim Gray. He is a "Technical Fellow" in the Scalea...
Jesse Liberty has written up a good article showing how bind data into ASP.NET control over at O'Reilly's brand new ASP.NET 2.0 Training Center site:
"...in the next version of the .NET Framework a ...
Over at .Net Rocks!, Regional Director Barry Gervin introduces LINQ, a nascent set of language extentions providing query services for list-based objects.
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Alex Barnett,Community Program Manager...
Ive heard a few comments from people who would like an easier way to manage connection lifetime & use across multiple methods. Most often, the problem is due to using a TransactionScope at an high...
Carl Perry, a Program Manager from our ADO.Net team has blogged about how to use and extend the new MetaData Schema functionality in ADO.Net 2.0. The blog is here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/cperry/archiv...
The .NET Rocks! Show had Shawn Wilderman as their guest last week. Shawn is the Microsoft C# MVP who runs ADO.NET Guy:
"Carl and Richard interview Shawn Wildermuth about ADO.NET. He's down on dataso...
Mark Scurrell, Program Manager on the WinFS Sync team has provided an overview on the WinFS blog of the functionality provided to allow applications to synchronize data between WinFS stores:
"F...
In SQL Server 2005, we now have the ability to write managed (or CLR) code inside a Stored Procedure. This implies that you now have the capability to connect to a remote or the local ...
After two betas and 6 months of customer feedback the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver is generally available for download here http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/jdbc.
Our core goal with this new driv...
First of all Ill have to apologize because it took me several months to put this code out here. Right after PDC we were so busy that I didnt have the chance before to sit down, clean-up the code a lit...
If you havent seen it yet, SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 products have been released to manufacturing. It really feels good to call the product done and have it shipped to our customers. An o...
In SqlClient Managed Provider, there has always existed (right from ADO.Net 1.0 days) a keyword in the connection string called AttachDbFileName. The user could have the location of the database file ...
We wanted to be very explicit with our data coercion story for the JDBC 2005 driver, as far as we have been able to we are not going to allow getting a type from the server that would require a downca...
After a summer of hard work the Beta 2 of the JDBC driver is now available -- you can download it here. The big changes from Beta 1 are largely under the hood, and we had two main goals in...
As mentioned in my previous blog, SqlDependency is a new feature in .Net framework 2.0, which provide a mechanism to notify an app when a cache is invalidated. We got enough feedback from customers in...
The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference will happen next week in Los Angeles. Were all really exited about this and weve been working on content and demos for our talks, as well as cleaning u...
The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference will happen next week in Los Angeles. Were all really exited about this and weve been working on content and demos for our talks, as well as cleaning u...
The Native XML Web Services (SOAP) being a new feature in SQL 2005, I like to provide a brief overview of what it is and possible scenarios where it may be more useful then using normal SQL connection...
Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) is a cool new feature in SQL Server 2005 which allows you to start and begin processing another query while you are in the middle of processing a different query on ...
I often receive questions inquiring about the (channel) encryption capabilities in SQL Server 2005. Like SQL Server 2000, 2005 can use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to secure transmissions over ...
As stated in my previous post, the majority of new features available through SQL Native Client are accessed by connection or statement properties. MARS is about the simplest new feature to use in SQL...
As Acey Bunch explained in April, SQL Native Client meets the needs of developers wanting to take advantage of new features in SQL Server 2005 from ADO, ODBC and OLE DB applications. For those of you ...
Srik Raghavan, Lead Program Manager from the Dataworks team presented a MSDN WebCast on 4/7/2005 titled: "MSDN Webcast: Using Web Services To Connect to SQL Server 2005 from Your Smart Client Applica...
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As re-enforcement of Microsofts continued commitment to interoperability, the SQL Server team will release a new & fully supported JDBC driver for SQL Server 2000 & SQL Server 2005 known as th...
Id like to briefly talk about some of the work we have done in ADO.NET 2.0, for improvement of Errors and Exception usage. In ADO.NET 1.1, several error messages were generic and didnt have enough det...
How many of you are coming to TechEd 2005 in Orlando A show of hands, please. Excellent!
The DataWorks team will be at TechEd, delivering sessions, chatting in the cabana and in the booth,...
Microsoft Data Access Components version 2.8 sp1 is the last stand alone redistributable of MDAC that Microsoft will ship.
MDAC is a windows component: Upon shipping Windows 2000, Microsoft included ...
Ive gotten this same question several times in the last few weeks, so I thought it would be a good idea to put together some details on the topic. Update batching is a new ADO.NET 2.0 feature that, wh...
We have shipped MDAC 2.8 sp1. This is the version of MDAC that originally shipped with Windows XP sp2. It is also the version of MDAC that is included in SQL Server 2000 sp4.
This v...
By now you may have heard of a new data access technology called SQL Native Client that will ship with SQL Server 2005. But before we go much further in discussing it, lets be clear about what we mea...
At long last weve completed and signed-off on Whidbey Beta 2!!!!! Its been quite a long time since we started working on Beta 2; once this hits the web it will have been almost 9 months of bug f...
SQL Server 2005 enables the creation of procedures, functions, etc. using managed code. Since you can use managed code, sooner or later youll want to access some data in the same or a different server...
Weve been seeing several comments on email and blogs lately about changes in the APIs between CTP (Community Tech Preview) releases. I understand the frustration that these changes could cause, so I w...
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