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Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework

he challenge of bringing data from efficient storage engines such as SQL Server into object-oriented programming models is hardly a new one. Most developers address this challenge by writing complex

Catching the (Silver) Light

‘d guess that everyone reading this magazine has heard of Silverlight. I’ll also guess that not everyone has jumped at the opportunity to “play” with something that had been in

Printing Envelopes, and Lambda Expressions

or those following the saga of my household’s two cross-country moves in nine months back in 2005, I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that the current consensus is that

Re-Igniting Creativity

just got back from San Diego Comic-Con 2007 in San Diego, California. I love Comic Con for a number of reasons. First, I can go with friends and “geek” for

MVP Corner: Perspectives from a .NET Guy at GDC

‘ve been going to major developer conferences for 10 years now. My first was the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in San Diego back in September 1997. Whether I’m speaking

My Nightmare, and an Apology

rom 1981 through 1986, I taught high school. I was fresh out of college (OK, a semester of engineering grad school which “didn’t take”), didn’t really know what to do,

Seeing the Silverlight

icrosoft has officially entered the space of rich interactive browser development with a new product called Silverlight. To better understand what Silverlight is you simply need to take a look