Changing subjects for a bit from ADO.NET Data Services to an easy way to impress your friends... If you've never heard about this, you're in for a treat. The Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) is very, very easy to automate, and can come in handy when you...

Exception handling can be tricky in a distributed system, and I'd like to use this post to show a couple of interesting behavioral questions. First, I'm going to start off with the model I've been using so far , and this time I'll ask you to insert...

I guess my blog is mostly technical, but I should also take the time to call out how awesome it can be to work on the Astoria team. Not only do you get to play with wonderful technology, not only do you get to work with very talented folks, but you also...

Speaking of service operations , Mike Taulty has a screen cast on them here - much nicer than my dry prose!

I admit it - sometimes I fall in love very hard with some of my tools. Tools that make me productive. Tools that I can extend to make me productive. Tools that I rarely interact with but work in the background to make me productive. You get the idea....

One way in which you can expose additional resources from your ADO.NET Data Service is to implement "service operations" on your WebDataService subclass. For example, let's say we want to return all customers in a given city in a pre-baked entry point...

While the syntax described for filter in the previous post allows you to do some nifty things, there are still a few more things that an ADO.NET Data Service supports. The first are operators for arithmetic: +, -, *, /, %. These also have mnemonics...

So, as per the announcement on this team blog post , there is now a library you can use from a Silverlight 1.1 Alpha project to access your data. This is a great time to let us know what you think, in the post comments or in the forums. Is is too hard...

Let's say that we have a data service exposing all of Northwind. We can get all customers in the database by accessing this URL. http://localhost/WebDataService1.svc/Customers That could be more data than we wanted. Let's say we only care about...

This post talks a bit about updates from the last post on the URI format . In that post, we discussed how we were considering having a "full form" and a "compressed form" for syntax. With the convergence of using ATOM and JSON as the serialization...

If you're currently looking at the ADO.NET Data Services functionality that is available through the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview download, you'll notice that using the project item to add a new service is fabulously simple. If you're not doing anything...