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New WCF Data Services CTP now available!

As of yesterday, we have a new CTP available for WCF Data Services here.  This release includes a number of new OData and WCF Data Service features designed to make producing and consuming consum...

Oh yahnew windows phone 7 release for WCF Data Services also!

Let the releases roll! New WCF Data Service client for Windows Phone 7. This is an update to the WCF Data Service client that we shipped with .net 4.0 with a few phone specific features added in (e....

Project Astoria == ADO.NET Data Services == WCF Data Services

As announced at PDC this afternoon by Pablo, the ADO.NET Data Services framework is being renamed WCF Data Services as the first part of a long term effort to align all the Microsoft technologies for...

ODBC for the web

Yesterday at PDC and via the Project Astoria team blog, we announced the Open Data Protocol (OData) imitative. The Open Data Protocol (OData) specification is published under the Open Specification ...

DevConnections slides and demo

Here is my slides and demo from the talk I gave last week at DevConnections: DAO01: Whats New in ADO.NET Data Services?....

Peter Qian and row count

Peter Qian, the newest member of the ADO.NET Data Services, now has his own blog. In his initial post, Peter talks about the row count feature we included with v1.5 of ADO.NET Data Services.  He...

Astoria v1.5 CTP now available

In the fine tradition of Saint Patrick's Day we have released the first CTP of ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 today.  Download here.  Team blog announcement and "Getting Started" walk through ...

updated Linq to Sql IUpdatable implementation

Based on feedback from Robert Fonseca-Ensor, I have made a bunch of bug and performance fixes to the IUpdatable implementation for Linq to Sql and posted those to code gallery.  Rob is also now m...

VSlive Presentations and demos

Last week I presented two talks about ADO.NET Data Services at VSLive in San Francisco.  As promised to the talk attendees, here are the slides and demos....

OOB == Out of Band

Yesterday we announced that we will be releasing an update to ADO.NET Data Services that we are calling ADO.NET Data Services v1.5.  For more details, see Mike Flasko's write up here on the team ...

Using timeout setting with Astoria client

Believe it or not, but we did ship ADO.NET Data Services with a few bugs.    One issue in particular is somewhat nasty.   However the code developers might be tempted to write...

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services with John Papa

On Wednesday John Papa will be giving a webcast about anything and everything you ever wanted to know when consuming Astoria Data Services from a Silverlight 2.0 app.  Should be a good one. I al...

What is IUpdatable? Why should I care?

Over the past few weeks I have posted a couple of samples of implementing IUpdateable for non-EF DALs so those can be used as data sources for ADO.NET Data Services.  A handful of people have ask...

Attention! Phani on Deck!

One of the most common feature requests we hear for Astoria is the ability to mark properties on an entity as hidden.  Currently in V1 we support this on the server, but not with the .NET or Silv...

IUpdateable for Linq to Sql - Fixing a few issues

Finally got IUpdateable.ResetResource() for Linq To Sql working correctly.  This means that REPLACE operations are now working correctly.  I have uploaded those changes to code gallery. Goi...

Developing aN Astoria data provider for SubSonic

I have developed a data provider for SubSonic to enable it as a ADO.NET Data Services data source. This ended up being a bit harder then I initially thought, and is definitely still a work in progress...

Slides for my ASP.NET Connections Sessions

As promised the slides for me two ASP.NET Connections talks for 11/12/08:   MDA01: Deep Dive: ADO.NET Data Services FrameworkApplication Patterns   MDA04: LINQ to XML, SQL, Entities, Da...

IUpdateable for Linq To Sql

IUpdatable for Linq to Sql I have had an implementation of IUpdateable for Linq to Sql about half done for quite some time now. Yesterday I decided to bite the bullet and finish it up. Below I have ...

Linq to anything

Along with my manager Shyam Pather, I am giving the following talk at the upcoming Dev Connections conference:   MDA04: LINQ to XML, SQL, Entities, DataSets and Co.: Data Access Technologies...

New Windows Live Services will be compatible with Astoria

The news is out! At Mix, Windows Live will be announcing several new Live Services with AtomPub endpoints.  These services will also be compatible with Astoria and therefor will work with the Ast...

Project Astoria Links for 1/15/08

Michael Sync has written a sample using the new Astoria Silverlight client library. David Hayden posted a nice walk through for getting an Data Service up and running over Linq To Sql. Our own Macelo ...

VB version of CopyToDataTable<T>

Matthew Wills ported my original C# CopyToDataTable<T> Linq operator to VB.  According to him, he used Instant VB to convert the code from C# to VB and then hand tweaked it.  Looks lik...

Updated Astoria Silverlight client now available

The updated Astoria Silverlight client is now available. This client is 95% compatible with the client library we released back in the December CTP (we hope to make this 100% source code compatible by...

Pathetic Plea for help

A number of people have asked me for a VB version of the CopyToDataTable<T> sample I wrote a few months back.   Unfortunately, between getting some skiing in (lots of snow in Washingto...

Server errors and the Astoria client

Marcelo Lopez Ruiz, a developer on the Astoria team, has written a nice post describing how to deal with Astoria server errors returned via HTTP. One thing I regret that we didn't get into the Astoria...

Project Astoria Links for 12/18/07

Jonathan Carter is in the midst of writing a 11 Part (!) Training Series about ADO.NET Data Services. Guy Burnstein has also started a “Get Started with ADO.Net Data Services” post series...

Linq to REST

Late Sunday night we released the first public preview of ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions.  For information on the release, see ScottGu's announcement. As part of that preview, we released the f...

191 Miles to Astoria

A couple of months ago I became Development Lead for Project Astoria.   The goal of Project Astoria is to provide a data services for the web. AKA Project Astoria provides a RESTFUL head for...

Project Jasper sample

Tok Wee Hyong of the .Net Singapore user group has put together a nice Project Jasper sample available here if anyone is interested....

Science Project

In the original Linq CTP and the first Orcas Beta, we included a DataSet specific Linq operator called CopyToDataTable<T> (It was called ToDataTable at one point also).  For Beta 2 of ...

Three more books + Andrew Conrad trivia

Scott Hanselman has blogged about what he thinks is the Six Essential Language Agnostic Programming Books.  Can't say I can argue with any of the six he has choices, but let me make a few su...

We are going Agile!

Over the last few months, it dawned on us that if we were writing software apis/ frameworks (Jasper, Astoria) specifically designed for Agile development that perhaps we should really understand Agile...

ORMs and changing data stores

The folks at Rails Envy have posted a bunch of funny parodies of the "Mac vs PC" pitting ROR versus various technologies. The one to pay particular attention to is ad #4 out of 4:  Changing Dat...

Excellent Astoria article by the author of my new favorite geek book

Leonard Richardson, the coauthor of my new favorite geek book Restful Web Services has an excellent break down of Project Astoria and how Restful it is.  Also, don't miss the really good conversa...

Always be lazy

Scott Bellware has an interesting post about Lazy Load in ORMs. IMHO, I prefer eager load of all scalar values and load on demand (lazy load) for all complex objects, even when the card...

Greatest Book Store in the World

I am down in Portland Oregon over the weekend for RailsConf.  During lunch today, I decided to drop into my favorite book store Powells Technical Books in downtown Portland.    Beside...

Some comments about comments and other ramblings about Project Jasper

Over the last week or so we have been trying to gather information on what developers are saying about Project Jasper. (This, even in the age of rockin search engines is a lot harder then one thinks)....

A walkthrough the Jasper API with IronPython - Part 1

This blog post is part one of my walkthrough of the Jasper API in IronPython.  In our Channel 9 interview, I briefly demo'ed some of this walkthrough.  Hoping also to get a screen ...

Jasper team Channel 9 interview

Before Mix07, the Jasper project team filmed a Channel 9 interview.  Check it out here if you are interested....

Jasper and C#

The question Is Jasper useable from c#? came up on the Jasper forum. The short answer is We designed Jasper specifically for CLR languages with late-bound facilities such as VB and IronPython. ...

jasper links

Some interesting links from my coworkers about Project Jasper: Shyam Pather, who is currently attending Mix07 and will be giving the Jasper Mix07 session tomorrow (5/2/07) has a write up on the...

Project Astoria

In addition to Project Jasper, the ADO.NET team is also releasing a second incubation project at Mix07 called Astoria. Project Astoria is the brainchild of Pablo Castro, resident System.Data expert a...

Project Jasper!

At the Mix07 conference this week, we will be announcing Project Jasper aka Dynamic ADO.net. Available immediately is the initial CTP (Community Technology Preview) release for the project. What is P...

'foo' is a 'variable' but is used like a 'method'

  Over the last several months, because of my current project I have had to program in a bunch of different languages.   (The reason for this will become crystal clear early next week)....

Mix07

The Mix 07 talk has been posted for what I have been working on for the last year: Rapidly Building Data Driven Web Pages with Dynamic ADO.NET Speaker(s): Samuel Druker - Microsoft, Shyam Pather - M...

Updated Linq 101 samples for Orcas March CTP

Apparently there were a few glitches with the Linq samples in the Orcas March CTP.  Erick has posted here about how to manually fix the Linq to Entities samples.  You can also download all t...

The Haskell Road to Enlightenment

Just finished reading Introduction to Functional Programming by Bird & Wadler:     It was particularly interesting since a significant portion of LINQ came from the Functional...

Next Linq Tech Preview Teaser

DataSet... Linq... hmmmmmmmm.  ...

Sir Tom

Its about time: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/31/britain.honors.ap/index.html  ...

The Ricky Gervais Show

Discovered this nice little podcast over the holidays.  Simply superb!   Downside is that I am now wasting all my time searching for interesting monkey news to contribute....

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