Data Development Technical Articles

Data Development (General)

• Data Development Technologies At-a-Glance (100 level)
• Data Development Technologies: Past, Present, Future (100 level)
• Guide to the Data Development Platform for .NET Developers (200 level)
• Data Access Practices using Microsoft .NET: A Nerdly Comparison (300 level)
• Hello, Data (End-to-End Data Technologies; 300 level)

ADO.NET Entity Framework

• Entity Framework At-a-Glance (100 level)
• Introducing the Entity Framework (200 level)
• Introduction to the Entity Framework (PowerPoint, 200 level)
• Working with Objects (200-300 level)
• Entity Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010 (300 level)
• Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 (PowerPoint, 200 level)
• Achieve Flexible Data Modeling with the Entity Framework (300 level)
• Next-Generation Data Access: Making the Conceptual Level Real
• Questions & Answers
• Performance Considerations for Entity Framework (300-400 level)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 (blog series)
• Drag & Drop Databinding with the Entity Framework and WPF

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Data Services

• Data Services At-a-Glance (100 level)
• Introducing OData (100 level)
• What's New in Data Services (200 level)
• Overview of Data Services (200 level)
• Getting Started (index)
• Data Services in Visual Studio 2010 (300 level)
• Open Data Protocol by Example (300 level)
• Expose And Consume Data in A Web Services World (200 level)
• Questions & Answers
• Also see the Data Services Team Blog

ADO.NET

• ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Matrix
• Managed Data Access Inside SQL Server with ADO.NET and SQLCLR
• Asynchronous Command Execution in ADO.NET 2.0
• Generic Coding with the ADO.NET 2.0 Base Classes and Factories
• Schemas in ADO.NET 2.0

LINQ to SQL

• Introducing LINQ to Relational Data
• LINQ to SQL: .NET Language-Integrated Query for Relational Data

Sync Framework

• Sync Framework Overview
• Introduction to Database Synchronization
• Introduction to File Synchronization
• Selecting the Appropriate Sync Framework Components