Developers are reckoning with the fact that Microsoft's LINQ to SQL data access protocol is getting short shrift in Redmond these days as the company continues to shore up its focus on the second ...

Sometimes you really, really, really want to see the SQL that LINQ generates when working with the Entity Framework. For instance, in a comment to a recent tip, a reader mentioned that a LINQ to ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

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DevOps got some serious attention in the recent release of Microsoft's Visual Studio Enterprise Edition 2017 (VSE17). The Redmond software maker took another step toward its goal of driving DevOps ...