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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 focuses on the core pillars of developer experience, support for the latest platforms, targeted experiences for specific application types, and core architecture improvements. Includes the ADO.NET Entity Framew... more
Wednesday, May 20
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 is the second tech preview release of the next version of ADO.NET Data Services. This release (v1.5) will target the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 & Silverlight 3 platforms and provide new client and server side features... more
Tuesday, Sep 1
Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 1
This CTP is a an early preview of features that build on top of ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1). The features in this CTP include Templates for Self-Tracking Entities (N-Tier support), Templates for POCO (Pla... more
Tuesday, Jun 23

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Team Blogs

Foreign Key Relationships in the Entity Framework
Last March Alex James posted to our design blog about our plans for adding foreign keys to the entit... more
Friday, Nov 6 by dpblogs
Enabling X-Domain access to your Data Services
In the Astoria V1.5 CTP2 release, we introduced support for X-Domain and Out Of Browser access to Da... more
Thursday, Nov 5 by dpblogs
Model First with the Entity Framework 4
In a previous post, we walked through the designer’s “out of the box” database schema generation exp... more
Thursday, Nov 5 by dpblogs
ADO.Net Entity Framework Community Technology Preview Released!
We’ve released an update of the Entity Framework Feature CTP!  The updated CTP includes many re... more
Wednesday, Nov 4 by dpblogs
The ADO.NET Providers team wants to hear your opinion
This is the time when we, the ADO.NET Providers team, take a step back, review our goals for the nex... more
Sunday, Nov 1 by dpblogs
Using Data Services over SharePoint 2010 – Part 2 - CRUD
In part 1 you learned how to get SharePoint 2010 and Astoria working together, how to add a Service... more
Thursday, Oct 29 by dpblogs
Upcoming ADO.Net Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
Just a quick note to let everyone know we’re actively working on an updated Feature CTP for Visual S... more
Monday, Oct 26 by dpblogs
New features in Entity Framework impacting providers
Providers for Entity Framework 3.5 will work unmodified against Entity Framework 4.0. Also, most of... more
Thursday, Oct 22 by dpblogs

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Data Platform Forums

ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities
Post questions and feedback related to released (RTM) versions of ADO.NET including LINQ support for ADO.NET, object-relational mapping & entity data modeling.

ADO.NET Data Services
Post feedback, questions and suggestions related to released (RTM) versions of ADO.NET Data Services (also known as Project "Astoria").

ADO.NET Data Services (Pre-Release)
Post feedback, questions and suggestions related to pre-release (Alpha Preview, CTP, Beta) versions of ADO.NET Data Services (also known as Project "Astoria").

ADO.NET DataSet
Questions and discussion about data platform development using ADO.NET DataSet and LINQ to DataSet.

ADO.NET Data Providers
Data platform development using classic ADO.NET (v 1.1 and 2.0) and System.Data namespace. For SQL Native Client or related topics, see SQL Server Data Access forum

LINQ to SQL
Questions and discussion about LINQ to SQL. For LINQ to Entities see the "ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities (Pre-release)" forum.

Project code name "Velocity"
Post feedback, questions and suggestions related to future versions of Microsoft project code name "Velocity" distributed cache.

XML and the .NET Framework
Questions and discussion about the processing of XML, XSLT and/or XSD using .NET frameworks, LINQ to XML, and the XML Tools in Visual Studio.

SQL Server Data Access
Forum for data access to SQL Server using SQL Native Client, OLEDB, ODBC, ADO, MDAC, JDBC, SOAP/HTTP or the SQL Server Driver for PHP.

SQL Server Driver for PHP
Forum for the SQL Server Driver for PHP which is designed to enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications on the Windows Platform.


Code Gallery Samples

All-In-One Code Framework (CodeFx)
All-In-One Code Framework code-name CodeFx delineates the framework and ske... more
Monday, Oct 12 by MSDN Code Gallery
MSDN & TechNet East Region resource site
Site for materials from the Microsoft DPE East Region Evangelism team:... more
Friday, Sep 11 by MSDN Code Gallery
All-In-One Code Framework (CHS)
All-In-One Code Framework code-name CodeFx delineates the framework and ske... more
Saturday, Aug 1 by MSDN Code Gallery
ADO.NET Data Services Documentation Samples
Samples featured in the ADO.NET Data Services core product documentation.
Monday, Jun 22 by MSDN Code Gallery
CodeFx
All-In-One Code Framework code-name CodeFx delineates the framework and ske... more
Saturday, May 30 by MSDN Code Gallery

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