There is a surge in interest for Sybase, Oracle and DB2 ADO.NET providers for use with 64-bit .NET applications built across ADO.NET, Entity Framework, and NHibernate.  Like these shops, you are probably reading this article since you've encountered an issue upgrading a development PC or server to...

There have been many relatively recent dramatic improvements in hardware.  Factors such as processor speed/design and network capacity appear to be making shortages of hardware resources very pre-2011.  Not to mention falling prices that appear to not have hit bottom just yet.  But with improving...

Microsoft’s recently released Entity Framework 4 (EF4) is generating deserved buzz among the .NET community. It seems that people can’t wait to make the jump directly to EF4, even if they haven’t even touched EF1. The perception is that EF1 was not up to snuff when it came to important...

Some recommended reading for those of you who are looking at what NHibernate 2.0 offers in comparison to Entity Framework 4.0. While it is a fairly subjective view point...

Since the announcement of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 we have seen torrent of requests from people looking to use our Oracle EF provider with VS 2010. The good news is...

Early on in our EF development cycles, I gave our .NET QA team an unusual challenge:- Spin up our test suites in readiness for our upcoming ADO.NET Entity Framework support for Oracle, except without an pre-QA ADO.NET EF provider ready for Oracle. Our excellent QA got to work and built our the...

Continuing our theme of how to get up and running with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and Oracle we've put together a set of samples and how-to's for common Visual Studio tasks – console and ASP.NET applications. We've included download samples as...

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...

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...