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Over the past few months I've been reading of rumblings in the .NET blogosphere about the directions Microsoft is taking with .NET. The poster child for these rumblings is the dichotomy between LINQ to SQL and the ADO Entity Framework (EF). Both in essence...

[Update June 20, 2008: Audio version added:] You can also download the mp3 file to your iPod, Zune, or other mp3 player: LinqLinqSayNoMore.mp3 An interesting question that someone asked of me recently, indicating perhaps that the information from Microsoft...

We've had some feedback about our LinqServerModeDataSource not supporting editing out of the box. (Suggestion S19363 talks about this rather tersely, mainly since it's constructed as a memo to ourselves.) Since there's been a few, er, discussions related...

Sometimes I'm amazed about people's perception of how a web application works, especially when used with advanced controls like our ASPxGridView. Let's, if you will, imagine a standard web application with a grid that displays data from some table or...

Late last week, after listening to and reading the feedback we'd been getting from our customers, the main architects of the ASPxGridView, Mike and Andrew, added support for the default LINQ paging parameters to the grid. After some further testing over...

In all the excitement of releasing both DXperience v2008 vol1 and our VCL Subscription build 34 on the same day a week or so ago, you may have missed this rather stunning bit of news, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention again. SD Times also phoned...