Just confirmed that I’ll be at VSLive in Boston [http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2005/bo/]this June. If you plan on attending VSLive, drop by. I’ll be presenting 2 topics: Get Ready for ADO.NET 2 (5:45 pm to 6:45 pm, Wednesday, June 29, 2005) Data access using ADO.NET is at the core o

Microsoft's Enterprise Library [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/entlib.asp] (Ent Lib) was developed using the oft spoken of Test Driven Development methodology (TDD). But of course if you are new to TDD or are aware of it but have not used it yet, yo

Here’s a quick tip in response to some questions I recently have been asked by several readers & bloggers: When using the Command.ExecuteReader method to get a DataReader, pass it the System.Data.CommandBehavior.CloseConnection argument. This argument closes the Connection when the DataReader is

OK, so its not ground breaking, earth shattering nor will it solve world hunger … but I am pretty stoked over the addition of the Merge method to the DataTable object in ADO.NET 2. It has always been an annoyance of mine that when I want to merge a DataTable into another one that I have to have a Da

We all make mistakes ... I know I certainly do. Today I made one that only set me back about 10 minutes ... but I admit I felt silly after I realized what I did wrong. Today I created a new VS 2008 project, added an Entity Data model (aka EDMX file) to the project, and began setting up my EDM. When