Soma announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloaded . This includes several updates, includes support for SQL Server 2008, and has a few new products including the Entity Framework, LINQ to Entities and ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria). ScottGu...

I've had some requests lately to write some articles that work with LINQ to SQL. I've ben focusing on the Entity Framework a lot due to its vast nature and that fact that its still relatively unknown to many people. So I am going to work on a LINQ to SQL project that ties into a multi tier model...

I will be kicking off my move to South Florida in a few weeks with a 1 day event for the “Practically Done” event series. On Wednesday August 1 st and on Saturday August 4 th I will be presenting “Data Access Done Right”, a full day event in Orlando. Register here for Wednesday, August 1 st – 9am to...

If you watch the ADO.NET team’s blog then you may have seen the post from today from Zlatko Michailov (Program Manager, ADO.NET). Here are the highlights from his post : In this Entity SQL (eSQL) post he discusses: what Entity SQL is a brief example of how to use it to retrieve a hierarchical set...