Microsoft would like you to use ADO to access your data, but is it the right solution for you? Follow along with our step-by-step example to learn more about this technology and see what advantages ...

When Microsoft released Silverlight 3 last week, there was much attention paid to its ability to support rich Internet applications outside the browser. But what does that mean for data-driven ...

EF (Entity Framework) is Microsoft’s flagship data access platform — an extended ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that abstracts the calls to the ADO.Net data access provider underneath. It is an open ...

Leverage ADO.Net's ability to work in disconnected mode to enable your application to stay disconnected to the database, conserve the system resources, and reduce the network traffic Microsoft’s ...

There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...