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Oh yah–new windows phone 7 release for WCF Data Services also!

aconrad — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:36:08 GMT

Let the releases roll!

New WCF Data Service client for Windows Phone 7.

This is an update to the WCF Data Service client that we shipped with .net 4.0 with a few phone specific features added in (e.g. tomb stoning).

Since it is an RTM release, you can use it for Windows Phone 7 apps submitted to the Windows Phone Marketplace.

New WCF Data Services CTP now available!

aconrad — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:56:29 GMT

As of yesterday, we have a new CTP available for WCF Data Services here. This release includes a number of new OData and WCF Data Service features designed to make producing and consuming consumer data services easier.

Ahmed Moustafa has a nice post about the new features.

Project Astoria == ADO.NET Data Services == WCF Data Services

aconrad — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:22:00 GMT

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 change does not affect current product plans or deliverables for Dev 10 or Silverlight, it is the first key step in simplifying our offerings in this space.

ODBC for the web

aconrad — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:34:16 GMT

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 interops with OData sources. In fact, there is already a growing list of products and libraries in addition to ADO.NET Data Services supporting OData, i.e. Sharepoint Server 2010, Excel 2010, Windows Azure, PHP, Java Restlet, and Silverlight.

In truth, this is simply a formal naming of the extensions to ATOM we have been supporting for two years now via ADO.NET Data Services. In other words, this will not affect any of our current product plans or releases. However doing this now is very intentional and is part of our overall goal of enabling data access across disparate data sources commonly found on the web and within enterprises – ODBC for the web!

For more information, please check out the following:

Official announcement on team blog

Open Data Protocol Q & A

http://odata.org

DevConnections slides and demo

aconrad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:17:00 GMT

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

Peter Qian and row count

aconrad — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:51:20 GMT

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 of this feature, so he knows what he is talking about. What he doesn't know about quite yet is what happens when the community finds he owns the #1 customer ask for ADO.NET Data Services and he now has a blog.

updated Linq to Sql IUpdatable implementation

aconrad — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:52:49 GMT

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 of ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 we have provided a new way to plug in data sources that provides the following features sorely missing from v1:

1) Does not require the data provider to provider CLR types representing the entities exposed by the data source. This meta data can be provided dynamically at runtime (or even per query) via a new metadata interface and does not require any static typed entities.

2) Provides a much cleaner way for third party provider writers to write and ship stand alone ADO.NET Data Service providers. (No more partial classes like my Linq to Sql IUpdatable implementation).

In the coming days I will posting a walk through for converting the Linq to Sql IUpdateable implementation to a full blown Linq to Sql provider for ADO.NET Data Services to demonstrate the new interface.

Astoria v1.5 CTP now available

aconrad — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:28:00 GMT

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 like server driven paging and streaming blob support which will save you millions of server cycles. We are planning on having several post on the team blogs explaining these and the rest of the v1.5 features soon. Also probably some more of our design videos if I can get a spare moment...

VSlive Presentations and demos

aconrad — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:08:00 GMT

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.

OOB == Out of Band

aconrad — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:08:16 GMT

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 personally very excited about having a ship vehicle that will allow us to ship quickly and hence get some new features out quickly (i.e. Row Count, Binding, Server Driven Paging, etc) to solve some key problems that we have heard about from the community.

Now we just have to find some time to film a few more design videos...