http://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/archive/tags/Software+Patterns/default.aspxTags: Software Patternsen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/archive/2007/12/07/beta-3-of-the-ado-net-entity-framework.aspxFri, 07 Dec 2007 12:40:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2620142Matt Deacon0http://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/comments/2620142.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/commentrss.aspx?PostID=2620142<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>The </FONT><A href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=104981"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Entity Framework Beta 3 runtime</FONT></A><FONT face=Calibri size=3> and the </FONT><A href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=104983"><FONT face=Calibri color=#0000ff size=3>Entity Framework Tools CTP 2</FONT></A>&nbsp;that <FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>work with the RTM releases of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 have just been released with a pile of new features this is definitely worth a detailed look and you can bet we'll be covering some of it at <A class="" title=QCon href="http://qcon.infoq.com/london/conference/" target=_blank mce_href="http://qcon.infoq.com/london/conference/">QCon </A>next March.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face=Calibri size=3>&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></SPAN></P><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2620142" width="1" height="1">Software Patternshttp://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/archive/2007/06/05/acropolis-ctp-1-released.aspxTue, 05 Jun 2007 22:11:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1154368Matt Deacon0http://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/comments/1154368.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/matt_deacon/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1154368What's “<A class="" title=Acropilis href="http://windowsclient.net/Acropolis/" target=_blank mce_href="http://windowsclient.net/Acropolis/">Acropolis</A>”? Well basically, it's a set of components and tools to help build client .NET applications and is part of the wave of “.NET Client Futures”. Check out the <A class="" title=Video href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/4/984da9b4-b5ff-45ba-b673-03117c393238/Acropolis%20-%20Getting%20Started.wmv" target=_blank mce_href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/4/984da9b4-b5ff-45ba-b673-03117c393238/Acropolis%20-%20Getting%20Started.wmv">video </A>- great voice over:)!<img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1154368" width="1" height="1">ArchitectureSoftware Patterns