Just a quick reminder for the free SA Developer .NET event tomorrow, the 8th September 2007, on building .NET data interfaces . The talk will be held in the Microsoft auditorium in Bryanston and presented by André van Rensburg. There are tons of resources available on how to access data from a .net application. How is it that this is still really difficult to get right? The myriad of options and requirements often makes it difficult to map the two extremes effectively – to choose the right option...
Two of the Microsoft ADO.NET team members, Mark Shields and Fabio Valbuena, have put a rather detailed post discussing EntitySQL. EntitySQL has been developed to address the need for programmers to reason, express and write queries in terms of the new Entity Data Model abstractions. One of the cool benefits of EntitySQL is that the developer can truly work in a data provider agnostic fashion as the language merely provides a means of querying the enhanced data model that is provided by the Entity...