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Microsoft released the ADO.NET entity framework with their latest service pack and I’m quite happy with what they have done so far. The entity framework helps reduce code complexity for creating entities and it also saves you the work of having to write all the mapping code yourself. One of the things I tried out was to use the Repository ...

Roy (A colleague) sparked me with some new inspiration to try something new. He wrote an article on ADO.NET data service which made me excited to try this one out. I didn't think much of it first, but I'm eager to try it out and see how it holds up with a more elaborate application. The first experience with this new framework however was a bit ...

Introduction One of the things that happens a lot in databases but less in object oriented software is normalization. In databases we often split one logical entity into multiple entities to remove redundant data. However in our client that uses this data it's often the other way around. Looking at ADO.Net entity framework I wondered if it ...

Introduction At Info Support we work with stored procedures in SQL 2000/2005 to access our data, this has a couple of advantages, like decoupling the interface from the actual table structure, reduce the number of errors in queries, etc. As you can imagine, I want this good practice to continue even when using ORM frameworks. Not all of them ...

Manuel notified me of the possibility to use the ADO.NET framework instead of my own custom solution for the data access layer of my opensource scheduling application. I must say I was a bit skeptical because I had tried it before and it didn't impress me back then. But things can change, so I installed the latest drops of the goodness and I ...