Tom Hollander [http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/default.aspx], Product Manager of Enterprise Library, announced [http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2005/04/08/406743.aspx] that a new patch is out for Ent Lib. It patches a memory leak in the Enterprise Library Configuration Application Block, which i

The July 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/07/default.aspx] is now available online. The amount of discussion that has surrounded the Enterprise Library and its Application Blocks (good, bad and indifferent) has been tremendous. I decided to create a 3 part ser

I am really excited about some of the new features in ADO.NET 2. I posted here last month [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2005/03/30/ADO_NET_2_DataTable_Merge.aspx] regarding how the ADO.NET 2 DataTable class will expose a Merge method (woo hoo!). I found this very useful when I h

I have been writing for MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/default.aspx] for almost 7 years with what started out as feature articles and moved into my current Data Points [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/find/default.aspx?type=Ti&phrase=Data%20Points&words=exact] column. 7

For a look at a non ADO.NET solution ... Dino Esposito [http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/] wrote an article called Collections and Data Binding [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/CuttingEdge/default.aspx] in a recent MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag] issue. Its a good read