ADO.NET

When I say "drag & drop" databinding, I bet most folks think of dragging controls from the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox onto the web form.But that's not the only way to make quick work of databinding in ASP.NET 2.0.In this DevNugget, .net Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie (aka .net…

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…

One of the cool new features of ASP.NET 2.0 is its rich declarative databinding. In addition to traditional techniques like databinding to a back-end SQL database, you can also databind to web services, using the ObjectDataSource.In this DevNugget, Mid-Atlantic .net Developer Evangelist G. Andrew…

Watch recorded sessions from an in-person Microsoft event around .NET Data Access. This video provides a deeper look at the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework. The Microsoft .NET Framework is a robust development platform with an enriched ecosystem of tools, components and features enabling…

The Entity Framework provides the ability to model rich conceptual layers that meet the needs of our applications.  One such model is table-per-type inheritance.  In this model, each entity is mapped to a distinct table in the store.  Each table contains all of the properties…

How to configure your Entity to perform Insert/Update/Delete against user defined Stored Procedure. Stay tuned, Wriju (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wriju)

Claudio Caldato, Senior Program Manager in the Interoperability Technical Strategy team and Pablo Castro, software architect of ADO.NET Data Services introduce a new project that bridges PHP and .NET: the Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services. The PHP Toolkit  is an open source…

Microsoft is all about options, and there's no shortage of options when it comes to data access!  You've got ADO.NET DataSets and DataReaders, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services just to name a few.  Each of these technologies can be used - and abused - depending on…

Once the initial allure of the cool graphics and animation capabilities of Silverlight has passed, you’ll probably say to yourself, "Hey, my app needs data too!" Well, this session delivers on that – not once, not twice, but thrice! We’ll look at accessing remote data services from…