Drag a table icon from Server Explorer to LINQ to SQL's O/R Designer surface to add a corresponding entity class widget for each database table, as shown here for the original Northwind sample ...

As Microsoft prepares to reveal its plans for a more robust offering of its emerging SQL Data Services, an obscure two-person company last week launched its own cloud-based relational database service ...

Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started), I decided it was time to try out Visual Studio 11 ...