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Fabian Winternitz is one of our awesome tools developers, and you can see some of his work in this post . That's a Visual Studio extension that will display searchable diagrams for the model exposed by any service endpoint that exposes OData metadata.
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Beth Massi has written a couple of very good posts involving ADO.NET Data Services, which I strongly encourage folks to read. Using ADO.NET Data Services (the fundamentals, great walk-through) Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8 (awesome
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I ran into the language/sorting coincidence not too long ago, and now I read the Introduction to Code Contracts post, which look like a much more sophisticated, structured and toolable tool than the simple Debug.Assert calls we have these days. Code contracts,
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If you do a lot of ADO.NET Data Services development, you might find yourself opening the services over different ports to host multiple services from a single machine, especially if you aren't just hosting it over IIS. This is a classic case where you'll
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If you're following the PDC announcements, new, good things are coming for developers and business... MSDN is already showing some topics to get you started. Azure Services Platform . Includes Windows Azure SDK, Live Services SDK, Microsoft .NET Services
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In the near future, I'll be spending less time on ADO.NET Data Services, and more time on some different technologies. Yes, I'll still blog about ADO.NET Data Services, and I expect I'll still have many email exchanges about it, but eventually you'll
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Pablo puts on his historian hat over at http://blogs.msdn.com/pablo/archive/2008/08/20/timeline-of-project-astoria.aspx and tells the tale of how Astoria (now ADO.NET Data Services) was born and raised. Some of my own memories: The very first mail on
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Here is the summary blurb: Misys Healthcare Systems Team Uses Powerful Tools to Build Innovative Web-Based Medical Records Application For more than a decade, Misys Healthcare Systems and Veracity Solutions have partnered to develop innovative applications
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It's always been interesting to me to see how different people will approach learning a new API. Some like to go through the programming guides, some through samples, some comb the reference documentation, some dive into the IDE and let Intellisense guide
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The documentation is online... isn't this URI so very clean? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.services.aspx Here's the one-sentence-or-less explanation of what's in this namespace, to give you a sense of what's used where. Setting Up
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Long on prose and short on code, this post just explores some patterns involving mutable/immutable objects in the .NET Framework (mutability from an external point-of-view, at least). The punch line comes at the end, for all of those interested in how
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In my last post , we established that JavaScript Date objects are 'local time-zone aware', and care needs to be taken in how they are constructed and displayed. There are constructors, 'toString'-type methods and getters/setters for both local-timezone-based
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I've talked about the Date type in the past , and since then I've come across a couple of gotchas that developers should probably be aware of. Unlike the regular DateTime type in the .NET Framework, the JavaScript Date type supports the both the UTC and
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I'll be leaving on vacations for a couple of weeks soon, so it's very unlikely that you'll see updates in that time frame here. Vacations are a good time to recharge batteries and spend time broadening horizons, which also helps connect dots sometimes...
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