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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 | 2 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 | 0 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

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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 included that code. I’ve done some light testing, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:52 PM by aconrad | 7 Comments

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 Explained With the release of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:12 PM by aconrad | 6 Comments

Astoria team is hiring!

The Astoria team is hiring! We have positions open for Developers and Program Managers. Currently, we are finishing up V1 and planning for V2, so it is a great time to join the team. For V2, we are thinking about expanding the project into new areas (e.g. Read More...

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 2:56 PM by aconrad | 3 Comments

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 Astoria client library. An excerpt from David Treadwell's post Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:08 PM by aconrad | 2 Comments

Astoria offsite

Last Wednesday we had a very important offsite for the entire Project Astoria team: Many key technical issues were discussed. In fact, the entire team was quite spent after a long, hard day. Read More...

Posted Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:38 AM by aconrad | 0 Comments

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 Ruiz talks about some tweaks we made to the Astoria Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:55 PM by aconrad | 1 Comments

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 like a fairly cool tool that we could use to port our C# unit tests Read More...

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 3:21 PM by aconrad | 1 Comments

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 RTM) + works with the latest Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Read More...

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 6:10 PM by aconrad | 2 Comments

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 Washington this year!) and getting Astoria ready for Mix, I Read More...

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 11:12 AM by aconrad | 7 Comments