There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...

Leverage ADO.Net's ability to work in disconnected mode to enable your application to stay disconnected to the database, conserve the system resources, and reduce the network traffic Microsoft’s ...

Hi everyone.<BR><BR>I have a VB6 app that we are eentually going to redo to VB.NET.<BR><BR>But in the meantime, I just need to conert the data access layer of it.<BR><BR>So I created a class library ...

Traditionally, organizations have interacted with their data warehouses using direct database connections. Although this approach has been the norm for years, it can negatively impact efficiency and ...