February 2008 - Posts

MIX08 is almost here...
29 February 08 03:06 PM | dpblogs | 23 Comments   

Its been a year since Pablo first announced Project Astoria at MIX 07. Since then we've started from scratch and build a production version of the product which is now known as the ADO.NET Data Services Framework. At the MIX conference this time around Read More...

Related entries and feeds: links and link expansion
18 February 08 10:04 PM | dpblogs | 10 Comments   

While going through application scenarios for the ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Project Astoria) one of the first things we noticed is that data-centric applications usually want to bring down graphs of related resources in each interaction with the Read More...

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AtomPub support in the ADO.NET Data Services Framework
13 February 08 11:07 PM | dpblogs | 15 Comments   

We have been looking for the last few months at adding first-class support for AtomPub to Project Astoria (we briefly touched on it before here ). We are at a point where we have some parts of the AtomPub story and their initial implementation running Read More...

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Why ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka Astoria)?
03 February 08 10:57 PM | dpblogs | 8 Comments   

I've responded to a few posts on our online forums asking what the motivations were for building Astoria. After one of our recent posts to the forums a comment was left that the replies would be a good blog post. So, what follows is a few of my responses Read More...