Most software developers have probably heard of and even had experiences with the object-relational impedance mismatch (often addressed with ORM tools), the object-XML impedance mismatch (often ...

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Since the birth of Visual Basic and Access, Microsoft has burned through a series of data-access APIs. Until ADO.NET, none of these APIs was dominant for more than four years. But seven years after ...