A few folks sent me email asking about idempotence on Astoria operations over the HTTP/REST interface, motivated by this post . I completely agree that idempotence is an important characteristic of an interface as it allows you to make a bunch of assumptions...

There is a number of folks that have been writing about Astoria. Collectively they built a lot of reference material that is probably the best reference point for getting started and learning about practical aspects around creating and using data services...

We just released the December 2007 CTP of Project Astoria, or I guess I should say the ADO.NET Data Services framework as Mike pointed out . This is an important milestone for Astoria, as this is the first release that is based on the real, production...

I had the chance to talk with Guy in TechEd Europe in Barcelona a few weeks ago. He has been looking at Astoria and doing presentations about it for a while, so he knows the product and the questions that developers out there have about it. In this podcast...