A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Jasper


      
            Microsoft code name of the day: Jasper
      
            Best guess on what it is: Dynamic ADO.Net, a first Community Technology Preview build of which Microsoft delivered in May 2007
      
            Meaning/context of the code name: After asking yesterday for the origins of the ?Astoria? codename, I think I stumbled upon it. The SQL Server team has long favored ?national parks? (and especially Canadian national parks) when selecting their codenames. It turns out Jasper is a Canadian national park. And the Astoria Hotel is one of Jasper?s best-known hangouts. Given the synergies between Microsoft?s Astoria and Jasper projects, maybe it?s no coincidence that the two codenames would emanate from the same geographic location.
      
            Back story: Here?s Microsoft?s description of Jasper, from its download page: ?Jasper leverages the power of dynamic languages and the concept of convention over configuration to provide a programming surface for data that enables rapid development of data-bound applications. While most other rapid data access frameworks are only capable of working against simple databases, Jasper can scale to almost any database, regardless of size or complexity. This is possible because Jasper takes advantage of the ADO.NET Entity Framework?s significant investments in mapping and conceptual data modeling.?Continue At Source


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