When Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions Inc. opened the beta program for its soon-to-be-released SQL Anywhere 11 embedded and mobile database-management system, the company barely mentioned ...

Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ...

On April 28, Microsoft confirmed in a blog posting that the ADO.NET Entity Framework is now officially out of the next version of Visual Studio codenamed Orcas. The Entity Framework is now expected in ...

An ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool is one that is used to abstract the data access logic of your application. You can use ORM to bridge the apparent mismatch between the data and the object ...

As Microsoft continues to make news about opening up its developer technologies (the latest being opening its Windows Azure cloud platform to Linux servers), it's easy to forget how the process works ...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VS08) Service Pack 1 (SP1) took eight months to arrive. Considering the capabilities that have been added, eight months might not seem so long. In some ways, SP1 feels ...