If you want to treat your database design as an 'implementation detail' that just falls out of getting your object model right, then Entity Framework gives you four choices. Picking the right one, ...

Increase your application's flexibility and make the installation simpler by connecting to the database without generating a DSN in the ODBC Data Source Administrator. Instead, use VB code to ...

A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs.