LINQ to SQL is more stable and bug-free than most Microsoft version 1 products, but data-oriented .NET developers com-­plain the free O/RM tool doesn't offer the Entity Framework (EF) capability to ...

Microsoft finally made the release of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 official with its highly anticipated launch event in San Francisco. The Redmond giant immediately followed the launch with ...

The Microsoft SQL Server team has made incremental updates to SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), updating the Schema Compare utility, improving Microsoft Azure SQL Database security and supporting Parallel ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

The theme of Ballmer's keynote address was integration, but it was the move by a fictitious coffee company to integrate a recent application and set up the infrastructure for a promotion campaign that ...

Microsoft this week posted new test versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. Visual Studio and .NET came out in Beta 2 versions. Tightly coupled with those public ...

Security, scalability and interoperability were the buzzwords of choice when Microsoft announced its latest product releases today. The software vendor took the wraps off its SQL Server 2005, Visual ...