For over a decade, database developers have been begging for a kind of bridge that enables procedural language programs to access relational databases relationally. Now that bridge is coming. But are ...

One of the great things about .NET Framework is that there is so much included to make your life as a developer easier. Over the past few years we've been flooded with new capabilities. Staying ...

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 ...

So I'm playing around with Visual Studio 2010 while we think about moving our projects to it, and I was trying to make a new Silverlight 4 app, but when I go to add any kind of of data models (ADO, ...

SCOTT FULTON: Well, forgive me for saying this, but as ugly as doing certain things in ODBC used to be, it did have a kind of discrete bridge to it: the fact that, at the tail end, when you were ...