When you're developing a data-centric application, you have a lot of choices just at the database level: SQL Server, Azure Table Storage, DocumentDB, MongoDB, … the list goes on . Having tools in your ...

LINQ to SQL is more stable and bug-free than most Microsoft version 1 products, but data-oriented .NET developers com-­plain the free O/RM tool doesn't offer the Entity Framework (EF) capability to ...

So I'm playing around with Visual Studio 2010 while we think about moving our projects to it, and I was trying to make a new Silverlight 4 app, but when I go to add any kind of of data models (ADO, ...

In a nutshell, I want to hear opinions from people using Silverlight, and I want to hear how you handle data access with Silverlight applications. The rest of this post is general rambling ...