TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX: VS 2008 [Express] SP-1, VB.NET 9.0, C# 3.0, SQL Server 2005/2008, ASP.NET LINQ to SQL celebrated its first anniversary on Nov. 11, 2008. As Microsoft's first object/relational ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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Take advantage of the Chunk method in LINQ to split large data sets into a sequence of chunks for more efficient processing. Language-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution ...

Visual Studio 2022 is an upgrade over its predecessor, the VS 2019. This Microsoft IDE is compatible with a lot of database technologies such as Azure, SQL, and SQLite, and has a perfect integration.

The theme of Ballmer's keynote address was integration, but it was the move by a fictitious coffee company to integrate a recent application and set up the infrastructure for a promotion campaign that ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...