We are currently preparing a release of the SQL Server Modeling November 2009 CTP that will install and operate with Visual Studio Release Candidate. We expect to make this release available the first week of March and will make an announcement here at that time.

We are also planning for another release of the November CTP that matches the final Visual Studio product (RTM) when that product becomes generally available.

I was swamped this morning, so didn’t get to see the Windows Phone Series 7 stuff live. When I did finally get to poke my head out, Scott Stanfield and Damir Tomicic had the list of links all set for me to follow. Thanks, guys!

If you like Model-First design in Entity Framework, you’re going to love the Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack

I was building a little WPF app to explore a hierarchical space (OData, if you must know), so of course, I was using the TreeView. And since I’m a big fan of data binding, of course I’ve got a hierarchical data source (basically):

The Telerik LINQ to “M” implementation allows developers to use LINQ

“In the 43rd episode of Deep Fried Bytes, Keith and Woody sit down at PDC

Rockford Lhotka has created a series of three videos showing how he has applied the SQL Server Modeling, specifically

Reading about Windows Azure Drive reminded me of a conversation I had when I was hanging out with my Microsoft brethren last week. We started by talking about how apps target a particular OS and how Microsoft’s bread-and-butter is making sure that apps continue to work forever on Windows so that our customers can upgrade their OS and still get their work done.