Performance is always at the top of the list of reasons why customers buy Progress DataDirect products. Even though all of our products are designed to deliver maximum performance out-of-the-box, there are cases where there may be a need to tune a product to get even better performance.
While many customers are aware that our drivers [...]
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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 Ayende Rahien does a good job dissecting the differences with a view to considering the pros and cons. Check out the blog posting here.
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Annual prognostications are typically overly optimistic, so for 2010’s soothsaying I’ve opted for a more pragmatic approach.
Austerity drives innovations in doing more with less – The 2009 budgetary hangovers while I expect to less restrictive this year, will drive nearly all purchasing decisions this year. A need to demonstrate obvious and immediate on any return [...]
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When talking about evaluating an effective software program, an efficient environment, or a powerful piece of hardware, how many times has someone said to me “performance isn’t important”? About the same number of times as I have won the lottery (hint: I am not writing this from a tropical beach). One of the biggest goals [...]
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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 that we are planning to support it officially in our upcoming service pack, due early next year. The even [...]
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In this podcast Rob Steward shares why Progress Software is a great place to work, and he provides insights into corporate culture. This podcast lasts for 3:24.
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Alex James from Microsoft has an excellent series of Entity Framework tips, that offer generic best practices on how programming effectively with the Entity Framework. Although some of his tips focus on EF4, there’s lots useful material for those embarking on EF 1.0 projects. Enjoy!
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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 majority of our [...]
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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 well:
Console Application
How-To | Sample Code
ASP.NET
How-To | Sample Code
Of course you’ll need a copy of [...]
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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 credit goes [...]
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