Many database developers have loudly bemoaned Microsoft's decision late last year to marginalize LINQ to SQL in favor of its ADO.NET Entity Framework. Hence there will be no major emphasis on LINQ to ...

Microsoft's controversial decision to position the ADO.NET Entity Framework has generated a lot of backlash among developers who made early bets on LINQ to SQL, which the company had released with ...

When you're developing a data-centric application, you have a lot of choices just at the database level: SQL Server, Azure Table Storage, DocumentDB, MongoDB, … the list goes on . Having tools in your ...

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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, ...