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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 building n-tier applications and services. While this Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:22 PM by aconrad | 2 Comments

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 Promise which allows anyone to develop software that Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:34 PM by aconrad | 0 Comments

DevConnections slides and demo
Here is my slides and demo from the talk I gave last week at DevConnections: “ DAO01: What’s New in ADO.NET Data Services? ”. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:17 PM by aconrad | 0 Comments


Attachment(s): What's new in ADO.NET Data Services.zip

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 was one of the main designers and the implementer Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:51 PM by aconrad | 1 Comments

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 my first official contributor to the project. As part Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:52 PM by aconrad | 2 Comments

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 video here . This is definitely a green release - with features Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:28 PM by aconrad | 3 Comments

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. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:08 PM by aconrad | 3 Comments


Attachment(s): VSLivePresentationsAndDemos.zip

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 blog. We should have a CTP out very soon.  I am Read More...

Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 12:08 PM by aconrad | 1 Comments

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 to work around the bug could cause far worse problems Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:06 PM by aconrad | 1 Comments

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 also noticed that his new book will be out January 2nd.  Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:52 AM by aconrad | 0 Comments

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 asked me why this is interesting, so I now realize I should Read More...

Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 2:59 PM by aconrad | 4 Comments

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 Silverlight clients. Phani, resident Astoria hacker (and Read More...

Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 10:23 AM by aconrad | 1 Comments

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 . Going forward all changes to the code with be available Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:32 PM by aconrad | 1 Comments

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. If you are interested, I have started a code gallery Read More...

Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 10:37 AM by aconrad | 1 Comments

Slides for my ASP.NET Connections Sessions
As promised the slides & demos for my two ASP.NET Connections talks from 11/11/08: MDA01: Deep Dive: ADO.NET Data Services Framework—Application Patterns MDA04: LINQ to XML, SQL, Entities, DataSets and Co.: Data Access Technologies Explained - AKA Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:16 AM by aconrad | 2 Comments


Attachment(s): DevConnectionsSlidesAndDemos.zip

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