Sybase Adds LINQ and entity framework support

摘要

When Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions Inc. opened the beta program for its soon-to-be-released SQL Anywhere 11 embedded and mobile database-management system, the company barely mentioned two improvements that are likely to appeal to .NET developers. The Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based company corrected that omission during a demonstration at Microsoft's Tech-Ed North America 2008 Developers conference last month in Orlando, Fla., throwing aspot-light on version 11's support for the ADO.N ET Entity Framework and Language Integrated Query (LINQ). LINQisasetofextensionstothe.NET Framework that provides native data querying capabilities to .N ET languages using a SQL-like syntax. Microsoft released LI NQ as part of its new Visual Studio 2008 suite, and is supporting it in the latest releases of the. N ET platform-beginning with C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0.