Pablo Castro's blog
Advertising support for OData in web pages
Most browsers today will automatically enable their RSS/Atom reader option when you're on a page...
Date: 06/15/2010
HTTP PATCH support for OData in WCF Data Services
NOTE: this post was originally published on 5/20/10 but somehow disappeared, probably during the...
Date: 06/14/2010
Implementing only certain aspects of OData
While we focus on keeping things simple, the whole OData protocol does have a bunch of functionality...
Date: 01/26/2010
Want to work on HTML5 database stuff? We're looking
As I mentioned yesterday, we're working on HTML5 stuff in general here at Microsoft, and my team in...
Date: 01/05/2010
HTML5 does databases
The HTML5* specification has been cooking for a while and lately the amount of buzz around it has...
Date: 01/04/2010
Every SharePoint 2010 server is a Data Services server
I haven't been writing much here, mostly because I've been way too busy but also because I couldn't...
Date: 10/19/2009
We're on a roll: Java client for Data Services announced
Just a few weeks after announcing the PHP toolkit for Data Services we now are happy to announce a...
Date: 09/28/2009
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2!
Yesterday we announced that the CTP 2 of the ADO.NET Data Services framework (yeah, Astoria) is...
Date: 09/01/2009
PHP toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services
Folks in the interoperability team at Microsoft just announced something they've been cooking for a...
Date: 08/21/2009
Mix 2009 next week in Las Vegas
Given how much of what we do in my team is related to the web (ADO.NET Data Services, System.Xml,...
Date: 03/13/2009
SQL Data Services goes full relational
A few days ago we announced the big news about SQL Data Services (SDS) switching to being a full...
Date: 03/12/2009
Busy week: ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP coming and "Astoria Offline" preview out
We announced two releases this week, kind of usual but it worked out this way. The first one is the...
Date: 03/07/2009
Adding support for JSONP and URL-controlled format to ADO.NET Data Services
JSONP is a common way of making data accessible in client-side mashups even when the requests need...
Date: 02/25/2009
ADO.NET Data Services in Windows Azure: pushing scalability to the next level
The announcement of Windows Azure is a big milestone for us in the Astoria team. We got a chance to...
Date: 11/01/2008
Now you know...it's Windows Azure
Since we shipped ADO.NET Data Services v1 in .NET 3.5 SP1 (and actually before that as well) I've...
Date: 10/28/2008
Trying something: short videos in our design notes
During the design of Data Services (Astoria) v1 we did the transparent design thing. We're quite...
Date: 09/28/2008
Coming from under the rocks just to celebrate for a bit
I've been sort of under a rock for a while, but I thought I'd come out for a minute to celebrate....
Date: 08/11/2008
Software Development Meme
Roger just tagged me for this software development meme thing…it looks like Julia tagged him, Shawn...
Date: 07/11/2008
Data Services and Entity Framework beta bits available
The news are out. The ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Astoria) and the ADO.NET Entity Framework...
Date: 05/12/2008
Provider availability enables Entity Framework and Data Services over many database vendors
There are fresh news about ADO.NET provider support here, and there is an official looking statement...
Date: 05/07/2008
The Astoria team is hiring!
The Astoria team builds the ADO.NET Data Services Framework and works on creative projects in the...
Date: 04/23/2008
REST and Concurrency Control
As part of the Astoria design process we scanned through many topics, some of them are...
Date: 04/22/2008
Unifying service interfaces
As David Treadwell announced yesterday, we are starting to align the Windows Live services...
Date: 02/29/2008
"Data Friction", spot-on
Jon Udell wrote a brief piece on how data is locked on servers behind UIs that were not designed for...
Date: 02/20/2008
Interview with Greg Low: LINQ, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services
Greg is a great interviewer, I'm sure you'll enjoy this conversation. In this occasion we did a bit...
Date: 02/05/2008
Idempotence on HTTP operations
A few folks sent me email asking about idempotence on Astoria operations over the HTTP/REST...
Date: 12/22/2007
Seriously good content on creating and using data services
There is a number of folks that have been writing about Astoria. Collectively they built a lot of...
Date: 12/21/2007
Project Astoria December CTP is out!
We just released the December 2007 CTP of Project Astoria, or I guess I should say the ADO.NET Data...
Date: 12/10/2007
Great questions in this podcast on Astoria by Guy Smith-Ferrier
I had the chance to talk with Guy in TechEd Europe in Barcelona a few weeks ago. He has been looking...
Date: 12/03/2007
Components and Applications for Astoria starting to pop-up
It's exciting to see how a whole ecosystem of development tools, samples and working sites is...
Date: 11/27/2007
Interview on Astoria in .NET Rocks
A few weeks ago I had a great conversation with Richard and Carl, the folks from .NET Rocks. Here is...
Date: 11/14/2007
TechEd Europe next week
I'll be attending TechEd Developers EMEA in Barcelona, Span next week. I'll be giving talks on...
Date: 10/24/2007
Two more Astoria design posts: URIs and data sources
We're trying to keep up posting regularly on the design aspects of Astoria we have on the table week...
Date: 09/29/2007
Astoria CTP for Visual Studio 2008 is here
We got many emails lately asking whether we were going to ship a version of the Astoria CTP that...
Date: 09/18/2007
What's your take on the wire formats Astoria should support?
As much as I'd like to say that formats are a low-level thing that most consumers of the technology...
Date: 09/10/2007
Channel 9 episode: the Entity Framework one year later
Almost exactly a year ago Mike, Britt and I did a Channel 9 episode where we talked about the Entity...
Date: 08/30/2007
ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 2 is out, with tools :)
Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2 shipped a few weeks ago and folks have been asking how to work with the...
Date: 08/29/2007
The Astoria Team is hiring
If you're interested in joining Microsoft and working in the Astoria team, check this out. If you...
Date: 08/13/2007
A data service is not a database
Since we put out the new version of the experimental Astoria online service there has been a broad...
Date: 08/09/2007
The state of Astoria: incubation or what?
I've seen a few instances on posts to forums or blogs asking whether Astoria continues to be an...
Date: 08/07/2007
We'll host an experimental Astoria data service for you
When we announced Project Astoria at Mix 2007 last May we made the toolkit available along with a...
Date: 08/03/2007
Going for transparency: follow the Astoria design process on the Astoria Team blog
The technology and needs in the web space are broad and move fast. As we are building technology for...
Date: 07/20/2007
Astoria Client for Silverlight Alpha 1.1
Last May when we shipped the first CTP of Microsoft Codename “Astoria” we included a client library...
Date: 07/12/2007
Podcast interview with Jon Udell
Last week I had a great conversation with Jon Udell about Astoria. Jon is a great interviewer and he...
Date: 07/03/2007
Security in data services
We still have more questions than answers on what is the appropriate security story for data...
Date: 05/21/2007
Astoria in Channel9
Charles from Channel9 came by my office a week or two ago and recorded this video where we discussed...
Date: 05/07/2007
Application models for Astoria
When you combine technologies such as Silverlight or AJAX-style applications with Astoria there is...
Date: 05/04/2007