Microsoft has revealed some details about what's next for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Customers should expect ...

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Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 of the integrated development environment (IDE) with a new IntelliSense linter to help C++ developers efficiently clean up code. It ...

Microsoft has made Visual Studio 2019 available for download. It ships with several new features that help you to Develop, Collaborate & Debug.

Microsoft also will integrate the Visual Studio Live Share collaboration feature into both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code, the open-source version of the commercial product.

LINQ to SQL classes that are mapped to database tables and views are called *entity classes*. The entity class maps to a record, whereas the individual properties of an entity class map to the ...

LINQ to SQL was the first object-relational mapping technology released by Microsoft. It works well in basic scenarios and continues to be supported in Visual Studio, but it is no longer under active ...

Having a POCO class makes it easy to add those methods, or others that you find useful. Note that the code generated from Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tools such as Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL’s ...

So I'm playing around with Visual Studio 2010 while we think about moving our projects to it, and I was trying to make a new Silverlight 4 app, but when I go to add any kind of of data models (ADO ...

Many database developers have loudly bemoaned Microsoft's decision late last year to marginalize LINQ to SQL in favor of its ADO.NET Entity Framework. Hence there will be no major emphasis on LINQ to ...

Tim Mallalieu, the program manager for both LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework, says Microsoft anticipated the backlash but maintains both data access interfaces will be better off for this move.