WCF Data Services 5.0 for OData v3 is out today. Read all about it here , and get it while it's hot. Actions , geospatial support , and an assortment of other goodies, not the least of which is support for Any and All operators. This restriction has been...

The Windows 8 app developer blog recently published How to improve performance in your Metro style app . A lot of the content might be familiar, including the always-handy Interaction class table, but there are additional considerations to play nice with...

A new release of datajs with a minor update is available today, version 1.0.2. The most significant change is support for high-precision DateTime values, which incidentally means that Azure Table Storage feeds are now better supported. Get it while...

I haven't posted for a while and it seems to be an effective method to get others to do so. :) Today, I'm happy to point you to Client side paging of Server Paged OData Entity Sets using datajs . Lohith does a good and detailed job at explaining what...

Later this week I'll be speaking at DevCon5 in New York . We'll look at how the browser landscape is evolving and where it's going, and present some of the work we've done in layering conventions over REST in producing OData , as well as the work we've...

Continuing in the spirit of my last post , I wanted to make sure that folks are aware of the How we used HTML5 to make SkyDrive fast for millions of people post on the Inside Windows Live blog. It's an accessible read that walks you through a number...

If you're a web developer, you definitely owe it to yourself to read the Instant email: how we made Hotmail 10x faster post on the Inside Windows Live blog. Go ahead and read it - I can wait. You see, with the right techniques, it's possible to provide...

One of the things that we care about a lot in datajs is in being practical and enabling better productivity. As such, we don't think you should spend a lot of time pouring over the library documentation to figure out how to put it to use. Instead,...

Check out the official announcement . The library is out there in all its glory. The datajs team will be writing a couple more samples as well as listening to the post-release feedback, then enjoying the long weekend (4th of July is a holiday in the US...

Personally, I think that having some storage and Office Web Apps is a great combination on its own. The fact that you also get mail & calendar (including Outlook Web Access), SharePoint Online, Lync Online, and Forefront protection, makes this an...

So, as per yesterday's announcement , datajs 0.0.4 is out. Go get it while it's fresh! An important thing that's worth remarking is this is the last planned release before version 1.0.0 . We don't have plans to add any new features or change the API...

Here is a handy video showing how you can quickly try something out with datajs and get a network capture (even if you don't have a functioning website!). Of course it's easier if you do, simply enable capturing and run your repro steps through your...

A new documentation topic is up on CodePlex with a sample page demonstrating how to populate a combo box from a datajs cache . If the browser doesn't support any storage API or if the user's storage quota is full, it still works as intended. There...

Yesterday we uploaded the changeset 8334 to datajs , which includes a pretty extensive list of improvements. These haven't made it into a release yet, but you can build and play with the sources - here's what's new. Adds support for configuring...

Today I want to show you how the Internet Explorer Developer Tools and datajs make it easy for developers to experiment with code and data. Just follow along in another Internet Explorer window and enjoy. First, we'll want to start with a page, let...

Check out the sample and code walkthrough at http://kashyapas.com/2011/05/releasing-netflix-catalog-using-htmlodatadatajsjquery/ . Some highlights: All the app components run in the browser! Clever use of the datajs cache - those values aren...

These days, I'm using #datajs when I tweet about small updates like minor code fixes or improvements to the CodePlex site. Enjoy!

Today's post is the result of about four hours of tracking down a tricky problem, so hopefully this will help others. My problem began when I was testing an Azure project with the storage emulator . The code that was supposed to work with the blob...

Lately I've been looking into writing Azure applications. I already know the .NET platform, so it's a very familiar development experience for me: all the libraries I know and love are there. There are two aspects however that are new to me. ...

Most of the people I've discussed datajs describe their experience as simply getting the code, using it and having it work on the first go. "It just works", and people get on with building the rest of their web app. So far it seems that the simple...

It's been a while since I last blogged about datajs , so in the interest of transparency I thought I'd give a quick update on what we're up to. There are three things that we're working on. Cache implementation. Alex is doing some awesome work...

By default, WCF Data Services does not support the $format and $callback options to support JSONP. If you're using datajs to access a service and have set the enableJsonpCallback flag to true but you're seeing an error on the response that looks like...

The MIX11 session on datajs is now online - enjoy!

I'm excited about the announcement of the datajs 0.0.3 release . This new release comes out within two months of the previous one, and as you can see from the changelists , there are a few very interesting changes. Basic key/value storage API over...

The beta of the OData Service for Team Foundation Service 2010 was announced yesterday, and of course as a TFS user I find this tremendously exciting. TFS ends up having a lot of data about my day-to-day work, and now thanks to OData it's easily unlocked...