ADO.NET at the Advisor Summit
Last week at the Advisor Summit conference I gave a talk introducing new LINQ functionality being introduced in the Orcas timeframe (and beyond).
As you probably know if you've been reading this blog regularly, LINQ functionality will begin to ship as part of Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" and the .NET Framework. The Orcas release will include LINQ to SQL, enabling LINQ queries against Microsoft SQL Server databases, LINQ to DataSet and LINQ to XML. The ADO.NET Entity Framework will ship in the first half of 2008 and will include LINQ to Entities, enabling LINQ queries against an Entity Data Model. The Entity Framework will also include other components, such as Object Services and the EntityClient managed provider, and will be supported by new tools for Visual Studio.
If you haven't been reading this blog regularly, or if you're only vaguely aware of the LINQ coming attractions, then all of this is bound to be confusing. Below are some links to help you get started in exploring some of the work being done by the Data Programmability team.
Mary Chipman,
Programmer Writer, ADO.NET
ADO.NET Team Blog
https://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/default.aspx
Data Programmability Team Blog
The LINQ Project
https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa904594.aspx
Download Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Downloads
https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx
Data Access and Storage Developer Center
https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/default.aspx
Data Access Incubation Projects
https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb419139.aspx
ADO.NET Orcas Forum
https://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=533&siteid=1
.NET Framework Data Access and Storage Forum
https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=45&SiteID=1
LINQ Project General Forum
https://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=123&siteid=1
Comments
- Anonymous
May 16, 2007
Hi, Mary, I can't imagine any .NET developer who's so out of touch as to not be aware of the coming LINQ and Entity Framework attractions, as well as the controversy surrounding the Entity Framework and its removal from the Orcas release. However, another reminder can't hurt. More resources: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/yet-another-primer-on-new-language.html --rj