Vitek has begun writing and he's tackling no small thing to start with - expressions in data services ! I've worked with Vitek on a few projects now, including managed XML and Data Services, and can vouch that he's really, really good at what he does...

In case you haven't seen this yet, the Windows Live team is blogging about the engineering side of things. Today's post on Messenger is a very interesting one, especially if you are a long-time user. They have some pretty staggering stats on how people...

Interesting thoughts over here - I'm always up for discussing what goes into making design trade-offs, and if you've ever had a discussions as to whether a "lower level" component ini your system should be made public or not, Alex has something to say...

Check out parts one , two and three if you haven't - good stuff there! In today's post, we're going to import data into Microsoft Access. I'm going to focus on having the building blocks in place, although in real-life use, you would either make this...

This is part three of a series - you should read part I and part II to have the code snippets handy and follow along. Today we won't be doing anything special with OData itself, instead we'll see how the snippets work across different Microsoft Office...

In case the title didn't give the fact away, this is the second part of a series - the first part is here . This post builds on the code from that post, so make sure you've gone over that before continuing. Last time, we simply got an XML document...

This post is the first of a series describing how you can leverage OData information in your Microsoft Office documents and applications using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). If you're using the newer programming APIs based on the .NET Framework...

In case you haven't yet, it's worth reading about what's new with Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2010 RC . Of the two items highlighted for the framework, the one that excites me the most is the DDL generation capability. I find that it comes in...

Sure, you can send mail or post on the blog, but as described on this post , you now get to report bugs, make suggestions and vote on the existing ones; all of this information is reviewed and considered by the team, so it's very much a "well-persisted...

Public-service-announcement type of thing today: if you're going to be applying an XSLT transformation multiple times, be sure to compile the transformation and then reuse it. This saves you CPU time to re-compile them, memory used during the recompilation...

Something I didn't know but find very, very cool: Windows 7 lets you know when you should consider replacing your laptop battery . My laptop is about a year old and I haven't seen the message yet, and I hope I won't see it for a while, but of course...

Or - why are there a number of overloaded GetContinuation methods on QueryOperationResponse? This is part three on server paging in ADO.NET Data Services - see also parts one and two . There are three GetContinuation methods. One takes no arguments...

This is the second part of the server paging in ADO.NET Data Services - see Server Paging makes for happy servers for the first part. When working with queries that return paged results, it may seem overkill to have a specific class, DataServiceQueryContinuation...

The latest version of ADO.NET Data Services (aka WCF Data Services) provides support for server-driven paging. That is, the server gets to control how many entities are returned in a response (a "page" of data), and lets the client know where to go look...