ADO.NET

In this screen cast I demonstrates the new Sync Designer for caching data locally in SQL Server Compact Edition.  This is part 1 showing the basics.  In part 2 I'll demonstrate how to split the code from client to server using WCF to synchronize data across internet protocols. For more…

Do all roads to coding start with math? Find out how Kati and Sarah got into the business of software development and find out more about being successful women on the ADO.NET team.

Dr. Peter Chen is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS and has received many prestigious awards including ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award and IEEE Harry Goode Award. He has been listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World for more than 15 years. Dr. Chen's original paper on the…

Brian Beckman is a fascinating individual. Ex-cosmologist, ex-military operating system and simulation developer (have you ever considered processes that move both forward and backward in time? Well, Brian and team at JPL created just that. He explains in this interview...). Brian was one of…

I recently caught up with some of the technical minds behind ADO.NET's Entity Framework: Architect Michael Pizzo, Technical Lead Pablo Castro and Director of Program Management Britt Johnston. What's an Entity Framework, you ask? Well, watch and learn all about this new ADO.NET…

A screencast overview of the different programming options for SQL Server Everywhere including an updateable resultset (SqlCeResultSet)  Steve

Another screencast in the SQL Server Everywhere series demonstrating the deployment options for SQL Server Everywhere.  In this screencast I talk about the Admin, Central, MSI deployment model with the assistance of ClickOnce bootstrappers as well as the private deployment model. More info…

To get a feel for what it means to install the SQL Server Compact Edition here's a screencast that describes the installation experience and the minimal impact to your machine.  This covers the download from: SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition CTP Download  The screencast also…

From new support for SQL Types to Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS), ADO.NET in Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 will evolve dataset access and manipulation to achieve greater scalability and flexibility.  ADO.NET, the data access framework for Microsoft® .NET applications, included in .NET…

I met up with Anders Hejlsberg and Sam Druker the other day to get an overview of the May CTP of LINQ and to learn about Entities, a new concept coming in future versions of the ADO.NET stack.