Jonathan Bruce

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Effective EF with Oracle – RIA & Silverlight 3
Over the past few months we received numerous how-to requests on how best to wire up a Silverlight 3 application with ADO.NET EF, ADO.NET Data Services and Oracle for use in an RIA application. To meet that need, we've put together how-to that we are now publishing on our .NET Connections blog. Full...

Jonathan Bruce August 31, 2009
Effective EF with Oracle - Ref Cursors in Stored Procedures II
If mapping stored procedures to the Entity Model wasn’t obvious enough, lets continue our discussion of our support of RefCursors and working effectively with EF. I have talked about Ref Cursors...

Jonathan Bruce August 31, 2009
Released! ADO.NET Entity Framework Support for Oracle
I am happy to announce that we've released our GA for Connect for ADO.NET 3.3! This includes our support for the ADO.NET Entity Framework for Oracle and a host of enterprise-ready...

Jonathan Bruce August 13, 2009
Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Award!
Always happy to highlight awards when we win them. Today is no exception. Today Visual Studio magazine "announced that its Progress® DataDirect Connect® for ADO.NET data providers have been honored with a Readers' Choice Merit Award in...

Jonathan Bruce August 04, 2009
Splitsville for System.Data.OracleClient & .NET – Part Deux

There's been a lot of buzz (see below for some collected links) about Microsoft's decision to deprecate System.Data.OracleClient).

I've received numerous emails, and as a company we've been watching...


Jonathan Bruce July 09, 2009
Effective EF with Oracle

In conversations with many .NET developers and architects, I consistently hear a preference to build their initial implementations with SQL Server. In many cases, it’s perfectly logical to do this. If you want to spin your application quickly, it offers the least path of resistance to get things up...


Jonathan Bruce June 25, 2009
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