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ADO.NET vWhat?

Clearing up few points of common confusion about the next version of ADO.NET... read more [A DevLife post]

Steve Smith makes an important discovery about a SqlDependency gotcha

Getting SqlDependency to work takes an enormous amount of orchestration up front - especially with regards to SQL Server permissions. Steve ran into a problem which made SqlDependecy work only intermittently. He finally got to the bottom of it (was related to the dbo owner) and has blogged about it here...

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yes Virginia, SqlConnection.Dispose CALLS SqlConnection.Close

I was recently involved in an ASPAdvice thread about close and dispose - an age old .NET debate. (Okay, the "age old" part is relative.) As backup, I quoted the msdn documentation that says "close and dispose are functionally equivalent" and someone pointed out not to believe everything I read and that...

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ADO.NET v3 August CTP released Aug 15th

Read all about it here ... [A DevLife post]

DataSets are for Dummies

Okay - the post title is meant to be facetious, but this blog post on my DevLife blog is some early thoughts on the ADO.NET vnext whitepapers and some of the ORM community's reaction to them as well. [ read more ... ] [A DevLife post]...

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ADO.NET v3 Whitepapers online

Thanks to Fabrice for pointing out that the whitepapers for the next gen ADO.NET are online. I am really excited abut this stuff. I'm printing them out for my airplane reading. (Which is wholly unlike me!) I better get back to packing! Next Generation Data Access ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview...

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Pablo Castro on ADO.NET 3.0

I am still in Vermont and missed Pablo's ADO.NET 3.0 talk. Kent Tegels was there though... [ read more ... ] [A DevLife post]

SQL Permissions for SQLNotificationRequest in ADO.NET 2.0

Though I have the necessary permissions for using SqlDependency almost memorized (as well as documented in my presentations and my new CoDe Mag article on Query Notification ), I tend to forget that when using the lower level SqlNotificationRequest, that you need permissions to send and receive on your...

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ADO.NET Versions and Indexing

Someone asked me about ADO.NET indexing which encouraged me to write about some of the amazing results of some performance tests I have done comparing VS2003 and VS2005's DataTable indexing. [ Read more...] [A DevLife post] Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

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Try ADO.NET for better cars and big houses (wink wink)

Sahil's teaser video for his ado.net 2.0 video training course is great. Clearly a guy who loves data access and has an enormous reverence for data. But watch the video all the way through as you will surely get a great laugh at the end! Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

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