January 2008 - Posts

Say you, say me, say task complete
31 January 08 03:46 PM | marcelolr | 4 Comments   
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 want Read More...
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Throwing Exceptions from ADO.NET Data Services
29 January 08 01:46 PM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
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 the Read More...
Services & Skiing Slopes
26 January 08 07:20 PM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
Mike Taulty on ADO.NET Data Service Operations
25 January 08 01:24 PM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
Speaking of service operations , Mike Taulty has a screen cast on them here - much nicer than my dry prose! Read More...
ADO.NET Entity Designer & developer productivity
25 January 08 10:58 AM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
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. Read More...
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Service Operations in ADO.NET Data Services
21 January 08 11:06 PM | marcelolr | 7 Comments   
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. Read More...
Arithmetic and built-in functions for $filter
15 January 08 05:03 PM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
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: + Read More...
Shaping the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight Add-On
12 January 08 01:01 AM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
$filter Query Option in ADO.NET Data Services
10 January 08 09:24 PM | marcelolr | 3 Comments   
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 customers Read More...
Updates to URL syntax for December CTP of ADO.NET Data Services
08 January 08 07:43 PM | marcelolr | 8 Comments   
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 formats, Read More...
Fast, simple test app for ADO.NET Data Services
02 January 08 03:02 PM | marcelolr | 4 Comments   
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 Read More...
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