In this month's column, Peter Vogel takes a single -- and common -- problem and looks at all the technologies you can use to solve it, from getting the data design correct through handling updates and ...

Entity Framework is an open source, object-relational mapper (ORM) that simplifies data access in your application. It enables you to write code to perform CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) ...

Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...