The ADO.NET team has released [http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/07/02/ado-net-entity-framework-june-2007-ctp-now-available.aspx] the latest bits for the ADO.NET Entity Framework with the June 2007 CTP [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5C12FE07-E646-49C2-887F-8CC070B

Last week the Orcas Beta 1 was made available for download by Microsoft. It is madeup of 8 large RAR files and can be downlaoded from here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx Some of my excitement was tempered a bit when a bug was found that caused problems with the EDM Wizard.

I set up a new dedicated server at GoDaddy.com this weekend. One of the issues I struggled with was when I set up MailEnable [http://www.mailenable.com/download.asp] to run on the server I could not send mail. I could receive it just fine, but it would not go out anywhere. A friend of mine helped me

The Data Access Team published a great post [http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/03/08/using-stored-procedures-for-change-processing-in-the-ado-net-entity-framework.aspx] that has some superb explanations on how to make the Entity Framework use stored procedures for inserts, udpates and delet

I want to offifically welcome Brian Peek [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/brianpeek/default.aspx] as our newest colleague at CodeBetter.com. Brian is a .NET guru who brings a different flavor to our community. He has wowed me with some of the stuff he has created including the Finalizer [http://www.