Building an Occasionally Connected ADO.Net Data Service with “Astoria Offline” Preview This is a step by step walkthrough of creating a new ADO.Net Data Service that support offline and synchronization with the recently released “Astoria Offline” alpha preview. 1. Create an ADO.Net Data Service that...

.Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are Available! Unlike other Service Packs from Microsoft, the SP1 of . Net Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 not only contains bug fixes and improvements, it also contains new technologies such as ADO.Net Entity Framework v1, ADO.Net Data Services...

How To: Call a Java EE Web Service from a .Net Client Many organizations have server side investments in Java technologies. While they want to build a compelling UI with Microsoft’s latest technologies, such as WPF and Silverlight, they still want to benefit from those existing investments instead of...

LINQ to SQL Support for SQL Server 2008 With the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 , LINQ to SQL now supports some of the new features in SQL Server 2008 . LINQ to SQL with SQL Server 2008 Date Time Types LINQ to SQL and FILESTREAM Enjoy!

Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta - A Guided Tour Over the last month I've been working with an internal build of the Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta in order to explore the new features in it. This post lists all the posts I've written exploring the service pack....

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit is available for Download The Developer and Platform Evangelism Group in Microsoft has created a new training kit for all the enhancements for the .Net Framework 3.5 : ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Dynamic Data ASP.NET AJAX History ASP.NET Silverlight controls ADO.NET Data Services...