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Getting Started With ADO.Net Data Services (Project Astoria) Now that Visual Studio 2008 RTM is here, the compatible ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3 bits , and now the December CTP of ADO.Net Data Services , its time to deep dive into it. I'll take the next few posts to play around with ADO.Net Data Services to create a Data Service for my Blog Schema. You're more than welcome to join me... To get started, you can download the BlogSchema.sql script and create the initial database for the...
See what's in the Training Kit for Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5, and get the links for downloading....
I always say that a developer cannot know everything and be fully updated with technology. In my opinion a developer should choose several technologies / tools / areas and develop an expertise in them, instead of knowing everything not deeply. When WinFX (later to become .Net Framework 3.0 ) came along I had chosen to be an expert in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) , and let someone else pick up Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) . Recently I have joined...
I recently joined a new project that uses Oracle as the primary database. Since my last interaction with this database was about 8 years ago, I have to catch up with the new features and development tools. In order to get started, I am currently downloading Oracle Database 10 g Express Edition which is the light database engine, similar to SQL Express. While the download is in progress, I am checking out the Oracle .Net Developer Center, which contains information about the Oracle Data Provider ...
Getting Started SQLCE | SQL Compact Edition | SQL Everywhere I have recently joined a project that looks for a In-Memory Database for client-side caching solution. I am currently conducting the POC of using SQLCE | SQL Compact Edition | SQL Everywhere as an alternative. SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition was previously named SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition during the product development phase. Customers have communicated to Microsoft through the pre-release community technology preview (CTP) program...
One of the benefits of being involved in a cutting edge .net project, is that you frequently ask yourself about new technologies that can be helpful in the project. So I decided to check up on LINQ: The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities. If you want...