Part 2 of dnrTV about the Entity Framework now up

dsimmons@microsoft.com — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:16:00 GMT

Check it out at http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=118. In this episdoe we build on the first EF dnrTV by looking at using the EF in a variety of scenarios including ASP.Net web pages with the Entity Data Source Control and with ASP.Net Dynamic Data and web services with ADO.Net Data Services and written by hand using WCF.

- Danny

If you don't know what Astoria is...

dsimmons@microsoft.com — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:01:00 GMT

I highly recommend checking out Astoria. Pablo Castro, a major driving force behind Astoria, was on Dot Net Rocks recently, and the show provides a great introduction to Astoria. Of course, you might also want to take a look at the Astoria Team Blog.

Essentially Astoria (aka ADO.Net Data Services) provides a REST-oriented web-service over data sources which is URI based and has a limited set of standardized operations over the data. It works really well with the Entity Framework and can provide a simple and very effective way to expose EF (or other) data to AJAX clients or any consumer of a web-data service. Very cool!

- Danny

system.data.objects dev guy : Astoria

Part 2 of dnrTV about the Entity Framework now up

If you don't know what Astoria is...