It's amazing how much information is there in our email archives. Now that we've shipped the thing, I thought I would share my summarized (still long), partial view of how the ADO.NET Data Services Framework ("Project Astoria") came to be. I...

I've been sort of under a rock for a while, but I thought I'd come out for a minute to celebrate. Today we made available .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. There are two components in the release I spent a bunch of time on, which interestingly...