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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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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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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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 before and as we now have our GA out in the wild, it’s time for an update on full our Ref Cursor support.
First, [...]
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Microsoft today made official that the System.Data.OracleClient is being deprecated. In software terms this is code for “it’s not you, it’s me”. Breakups are never easy, but to ease the pain lets look as some of the facts:
It is easy to appreciate that deprecating an established component out of a platform as large as the .NET [...]
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Today has unquestionably been an interesting day for .NET developers who work with Oracle data sources, so it’s timely that we announce our beta refresh for our ADO.NET Entity Framework support for Oracle. As you’re probably aware, we announced our beta a few weeks back and we are delighted to announce today the immediate availability [...]
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Early reports from DotNet Connections experiences at TechEd 2008 indicates a bumpy start. Apparently I have no hotel for this evening and will be staying the in the glorious ‘Quality Inn’ as my original reservation at the Rosen Plaza does not kick in until Monday.
Otherwise, what looks like a very interesting week ahead. I’ll post [...]
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