Visual Studio 2008 SP1: LINQ to SQL with SQL Server 2008 Date Time Types One of the pillars of Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is the support for SQL Server 2008 in Visual Studio 2008 tools and the related data access technologies. I decided to check out how LINQ to SQL works with SQL Server 2008 Date and Time types in Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 Beta. I created a simple database with a single table called friends, that holds my friends names and birth dates...
Visual Studio 2008 SP1: LINQ to SQL and FILESTREAM In Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, not only that LINQ to SQL supports the new date and time types of SQL Server 2008, but is also supports forking with FILESTREAM s. Using the File Management Schema from my SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM post, I created a simple .net application that uses LINQ to SQL in order to access the file contents. Just a reminder of how the Files table looks like: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Files] ( FileID uniqueidentifier...
Download and Install Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta(KB945140) Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta was announced today after being kept as a secret for some time. Here is the list of available downloads as part of this release: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1 Beta - Full Installation Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1 Beta - Web Installation Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile (Beta) Microsoft...