If you haven't seen yet, the SQL Data Services team announced some excited news at this past MIX conference.  Effectively they have decided to support full relational capabilities in SDS.  Much has been written about this already, including...

Phani, a member of the data services team, has continued his great series on Web Friendly Feeds with a look at how to map entity values to custom markup.  You can find all his posts to date on Web Friendly Feeds here: Part 1: Introducing Web Friendly...

We received a few questions asking if CTP1 of ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 includes a Silverlight library.   The short answer is yes, we included a Silverlight library initially intended for use with Silverlight 2.   Once you install...

Phani, a data services test team member, has posted two nice write ups describing the "web friendly feeds" feature in the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 release we made available for download yesterday . You can check out Phani's posts here...

This blog post is an introduction to the data binding capabilities we have added in Data Services v1.5 CTP1. Since this is a CTP release of this feature we eagerly look forward to hearing your feedback. Introduction to Data Binding In ADO.NET Data...

This post is a drill down into the Server Driven Paging (SDP) feature added in data services v1.5 CTP1. Since this is the first CTP release of this feature we look forward to hearing your feedback. What is Server Driven Paging? This feature is best...

Peter Qian, a developer on the data services team, has posted a nice write up describing the row count feature in the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 release we made available for download yesterday . You can check out Peter's Row Count write up here...

Two weeks ago we announced the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 release.  Today we're very happy to say CTP1 of  ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 is now available for download.  You can get the bits by clicking here . This first CTP release is intended...

In October of last year we started to talk publicly about an exploration project we called “Astoria Offline”, we showed a working version of it at PDC 2008 and we said we would ship the experimental bits as soon as we could. It ended up taking...

It's been a little while since we've written about the future direction of data services, so this post is intended to layout our thinking towards our next release. The release described below isn't yet available, but should be in the coming months, so...

Beth Massi has been busy creating a number of great posts describing how to build add-ins to Excel, Outlook, Word, etc to work with data from an ADO.NET Data Service. The articles can be found here: ADO.NET Data Services - Building an Excel Client...

Believe it or not, but we did ship ADO.NET Data Services with a few bugs. One issue in particular is fairly nasty. However the code developers might be tempted to write to work around the bug could cause far worse problems down the road when we fix the...

One of the scenarios we have heard feedback around is the ability for the a client of a data service to determine the total number of entities in a set without having to retrieve them all. The following video discusses this scenario in more detail and...

Are you going to TechEd EMEA this coming week?  If so, we've got the following data services focused sessions at the conference: WUX 313 (Thursday @ 5:30) - Building and Consuming REST-based Data Services for the Web : In this session we'll take...

As we already discussed in a previous blog post , one of the problem spaces related to data services we’d like to take on is synchronization-capable services, enabling offline scenarios. We’re still in the early stages of the project, where...

PDC is done for another year.  We had a great time presenting and chatting everyone.  Thanks for all your thoughtful feedback!   If you didn't make it to all the data services PDC sessions.... First : Shame on you.  Second : Here...

Technorati Tags: PDC2008 A few of us from the Astoria team will be at PDC this year.  If you are heading to the conference and want to chat about data services, drop us a note or we'll likely bump into you in the lounge / discussion areas. Below...

We mentioned that we were doing some early thinking of “Astoria Offline” back in Mix 2008, where we even demo’ed an early proof of concept. Now we’ve been working on various design aspects of Data Services for its future versions...

Another nice Silverlight sample was posted today by Valeri. You can play with the app online here and a description of how it is built along with source is here . -Mike Flasko ADO.NET Data Services, Program Manager

Check out this interesting sample I came across today which loads data from an ADO.NET Data Service into a Telerik tree view control on demand: http://blogs.telerik.com/ValeriHristov/Posts/08-10-08/Silverlight_TreeView_Load_on_Demand.aspx -Mike Flasko...

The goal of Astoria in V1 is to easily expose a data source using the REST approach to the web (with support for concurrency, versioning, auth, etc).  In general, the way we think about serialization formats (ie. how we represent entites on the wire...

A refresh of our "Overview of ADO.NET Data Services" white paper is now up on MSDN here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc956153.aspx . The document is meant to cover the high-level concepts for the product. A companion paper " Using ADO.NET...

An update to our "Using ADO.NET Data Services" whitepaper is now available to match the bits just released with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. You can find the paper on MSDN here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc907912.aspx . The document is intended...

As an offshoot of the feedback we got from different channels , ( Blogs , Direct emails to team members , our discussion forums, etc) we are releasing an “interim build” of the data services Silverlight client which works with the Silverlight 2 Beta 2...

We have started creating a "How do I" video series for data services. A couple videos are already posted here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/cc300162.aspx . We have a number of ideas for future videos and a few more yet to publish, but if you have...