WCF Data Services Team Blog
Silverlight + Controls Samples
Another nice Silverlight sample was posted today by Valeri. You can play with the app online here...
Author: dpblogs Date: 10/14/2008
Silverlight TreeView Load on Demand
Check out this interesting sample I came across today which loads data from an ADO.NET Data Service...
Author: dpblogs Date: 10/08/2008
Making Feeds Friendly
The goal of Astoria in V1 is to easily expose a data source using the REST approach to the web (with...
Author: dpblogs Date: 09/28/2008
ADO.NET Data Services Concepts
A refresh of our "Overview of ADO.NET Data Services" white paper is now up on MSDN here:...
Author: dpblogs Date: 09/10/2008
0 to 60 With ADO.NET Data Services
An update to our "Using ADO.NET Data Services" whitepaper is now available to match the bits just...
Author: dpblogs Date: 09/05/2008
Interim Release: Making SL2 Beta 2 Clients Work With .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 RTM Servers
As an offshoot of the feedback we got from different channels , ( Blogs , Direct emails to team...
Author: dpblogs Date: 09/02/2008
"How Do I Videos"
We have started creating a "How do I" video series for data services. A couple videos are already...
Author: dpblogs Date: 08/15/2008
Fixing 400 - Bad Request replies from ASP.NET when using ADO.NET Data Services
Marcelo has a nice post detailing how to deal with a couple common cases that can cause 400...
Author: dpblogs Date: 08/15/2008
Compat Note: Silverlight Beta 2 Client & .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Server Components
A few folks have asked about using the Silverlight Beta 2 client library against a data service...
Author: dpblogs Date: 08/12/2008
RTM is here!
ADO.NET Data Services (aka “Project Astoria”) has Released! Today marks the official RTM...
Author: dpblogs Date: 08/11/2008
Using the Uniform Interface Exposed By Data Services
In some of our past posts, we've discussed one of the benefits of data services is that the...
Author: dpblogs Date: 07/11/2008
Astoria Content @ TechEd This Week
Are you at TechEd this week? If so, we have a few Astoria related sessions going on. If you are at...
Author: dpblogs Date: 06/03/2008
Securing Data Services
We have received a lot of questions lately about how to authenticate calls to an ADO.NET Data...
Author: dpblogs Date: 05/28/2008
Merge vs. Replace Semantics for Update Operations
So far Astoria has used “merge” semantics for update. That is, an “update”...
Author: dpblogs Date: 05/20/2008
Interested in working on the ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka "Astoria") or XML?
Do you want to work on the next generation of data access APIs for the web? If so, the Astoria and...
Author: dpblogs Date: 05/18/2008
ADO.NET Data Services Framework Beta 1 is Live!
We are very excited to announce that .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta 1 are now...
Author: dpblogs Date: 05/12/2008
Using REST Services in Silverlight 2
We have received a lot of feedback over the past few weeks asking when will be update the...
Author: dpblogs Date: 04/24/2008
Optimistic Concurrency & Data Services
Different applications have different requirements around consistency and how concurrent...
Author: dpblogs Date: 04/22/2008
Astoria Online Service --> SQL Server Data Services
Around a year ago in the Mix 2007 conference we announced Project Astoria, an overall initiative to...
Author: dpblogs Date: 04/14/2008
IUpdatable & ADO.NET Data Services Framework
Astoria service allows reading/querying of data via the already-established IQueryable interface...
Author: dpblogs Date: 04/10/2008
Batching Data Service Requests
We have received a fair amount of feedback regarding a number of use cases where it would be...
Author: dpblogs Date: 04/07/2008
Looking for feedback: query caching in data services
(sorry, tricky problem -> long write-up) One of the few things pending in the server library of...
Author: dpblogs Date: 03/31/2008
Program Manager openings in Data Programmability
We’re gearing up for the next release of the .NET Framework, and we are looking for people...
Author: dpblogs Date: 03/05/2008
MIX08 is almost here...
Its been a year since Pablo first announced Project Astoria at MIX 07. Since then we've started from...
Author: dpblogs Date: 02/29/2008
Related entries and feeds: links and link expansion
While going through application scenarios for the ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Project Astoria)...
Author: dpblogs Date: 02/19/2008
AtomPub support in the ADO.NET Data Services Framework
We have been looking for the last few months at adding first-class support for AtomPub to Project...
Author: dpblogs Date: 02/14/2008
Why ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka Astoria)?
I've responded to a few posts on our online forums asking what the motivations were for building...
Author: dpblogs Date: 02/04/2008
Updates to URI Syntax in Dec 2007 ADO.NET Data Services CTP
We made few tweaks to our URI syntax to clean it up in the last CTP of ADO.NET Data Services....
Author: dpblogs Date: 01/14/2008
Deep Dive on the $filter query string option
Marcelo from our team has posted a nice write up detailing how the $filter query string operator...
Author: dpblogs Date: 01/14/2008
ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight Add-On
A number of people have asked for an updated ADO.NET Data Services client library to run inside the...
Author: dpblogs Date: 01/11/2008
Design Notes: URI Containment in Astoria
Problem statement Today in Astoria if you have two entity types that are functionally in a...
Author: dpblogs Date: 12/21/2007
LINQ to ADO.NET Data Services
While we worked hard to make it such that any HTTP client can easily consume an ADO.NET Data...
Author: dpblogs Date: 12/11/2007
ADO.NET Data Services Dec2007 CTP - Validation and Access Control
Note: This post refers to the CTP available here. When building frameworks to expose and consume...
Author: dpblogs Date: 12/10/2007
Viewing Data Services Responses Using Atom Serialization in Internet Explorer
The default serialization format for ADO.NET Data Services is now Atom instead of alternative...
Author: dpblogs Date: 12/10/2007
ADO.NET Data Services ("Project Astoria") CTP is Released
The first CTP of the production version of ADO.NET Data Services is now available for download here...
Author: dpblogs Date: 12/10/2007
ADO.NET Data Services == Project "Astoria"
A new name, but goals stay the same As per our last blog post, we just finished a round of...
Author: dpblogs Date: 12/07/2007
Upcoming Astoria Presentations
A few members of the Astoria team will be presenting on the technology in the coming month. We look...
Author: dpblogs Date: 10/29/2007
Astoria data sources and system layering
The question is: what data sources should Astoria support as inputs? Should we allow ADO.NET Entity...
Author: dpblogs Date: 09/27/2007
URI Format - Part 1 - Addressing resources using URI path segments
Deciding on something that becomes a public interface of a developer-oriented technology is a tricky...
Author: dpblogs Date: 09/21/2007
Astoria CTP Refresh for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2!
Some time ago we shipped Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and a couple of weeks later we added the ADO.NET...
Author: dpblogs Date: 09/18/2007
Compatibility heads-up: prototype != production code
It's amazing to see how many people are building great things with Astoria so early in the cycle. We...
Author: dpblogs Date: 08/31/2007
Want to work in the Astoria team? We’re hiring!
It’s been some time now since we switched from “incubation mode”, where it was...
Author: dpblogs Date: 08/13/2007
Create your own hosted Astoria Data Service
At the Mix 2007 conference we announced an Astoria CTP which included two major pieces: CTP bits you...
Author: dpblogs Date: 08/03/2007
Transparency in the design process
We have been looking at various options to ensure that the design of Astoria truly reflects the...
Author: dpblogs Date: 07/20/2007
Welcome!
Welcome to the Project Astoria Team Blog! The Astoria team (part of the “Data...
Author: dpblogs Date: 07/18/2007