Using Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework, developers can create an entity relationship model of the database (ie SQL Server) inside Visual Studio 2008.

Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

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 ...

Support for Asynchronous Programming in ADO.Net and Entity Framework Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 comes up with better support for asynchronous database operations.

ADO.NET Data Services has an expansive future; it's destined to become the on-premises counterpart of Microsoft's new Database as a Service initiative, SQL Server Data Services (SSDS).