Podcast: SQL Down Under show 30 - Pablo Castro - LINQ, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services for the DBA and database developer

SQL Down Under show 30 with guest SQL Server product team member Pablo
Castro discussing LINQ, Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria)
for the DBA and database developer is now available for download from
www.sqldownunder.com

ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 Released

Get the Entity Framework Beta 3 runtime and the Entity Framework Tools CTP 2
To get this to work in Visual Studio 2008 you also need this and this update .

ADO.NET Entity Framework will not be included in Orcas

Microsoft has announced that the ADO.NET Entity Framework will not be shipped with Orcas (Visual Studio 2007/8 and .NET Framework 3.5). The previous news was that the ADO.NET Entity Framework would be released with Orcas, but without the designers. The designers would be released at some point afterwards.

Microsoft has decided to ship the ADO.NET Entity Framework "during the first half of 2008 as an update to Orcas".