Progress Software Corporation has announced the release of DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET 3.5, extending support for Microsoft Entity Framework 4.0 to its Sybase, Oracle, and DB2 providers. With this ...

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Relational databases aren't designed to make programming against them easier, but to ensure performance, data consistency and concurrency. Seldom do developers work directly with data in the form that ...

Hundreds of dissatisfied testers of Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework V1, which is still in beta, are staging a protest against the software giant by expressing what they call a "vote of no ...

When Microsoft released Silverlight 3 last week, there was much attention paid to its ability to support rich Internet applications outside the browser. But what does that mean for data-driven ...

Microsoft has released a new community technology preview of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, which allows coders to program against data defined in a conceptual fashion instead of directly interacting ...

On April 28, Microsoft confirmed in a blog posting that the ADO.NET Entity Framework (herein called "Entity Framework") is now officially out of the next version of Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas." ...