December 2007 - Posts

Design Notes: URI Containment in Astoria
21 December 07 02:00 PM | dpblogs | 6 Comments   

Problem statement Today in Astoria if you have two entity types that are functionally in a containment relationship, you still see a top-level entity set for the instances of the contained type, and further the URLs for instances of the contained types Read More...

Filed under: Design Notes

LINQ to ADO.NET Data Services
11 December 07 12:33 AM | dpblogs | 3 Comments   

While we worked hard to make it such that any HTTP client can easily consume an ADO.NET Data Service, we are also working on client libraries for the .NET Framework, Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX to up the level of abstraction clients written on those Read More...

ADO.NET Data Services Dec2007 CTP - Validation and Access Control
10 December 07 07:25 PM | dpblogs | 8 Comments   

Note: This post refers to the CTP available here . When building frameworks to expose and consume data on the web, access policy and data validation are always one of the first topics discussed during the design process, at conferences, etc. Given this, Read More...

Filed under: Design Notes

Viewing Data Services Responses Using Atom Serialization in Internet Explorer
10 December 07 05:08 PM | dpblogs | 5 Comments   

The default serialization format for ADO.NET Data Services is now Atom instead of alternative XML-based formats we experimented with in previous releases. In short, we chose this format because when combined with the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) specification, Read More...

ADO.NET Data Services ("Project Astoria") CTP is Released
10 December 07 09:20 AM | dpblogs | 10 Comments   

The first CTP of the production version of ADO.NET Data Services is now available for download here as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview release . We are referring to this as the "first CTP" because the releases of Astoria prior to this were Read More...

ADO.NET Data Services == Project "Astoria"
07 December 07 09:40 AM | dpblogs | 11 Comments   

A new name, but goals stay the same As per our last blog post, we just finished a round of presentations on Astoria at Tech Ed EMEA, Tech Ed Africa, Dev Connections and finally Dev Teach. Thanks to everyone that attended our sessions and who stopped by Read More...