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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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Over at the team blog, you can find this post about ADO.NET Data Services changing its name to WCF Data Services in the .NET Framework 4 time frame. This is goodness by every account - over time, this just means a more integrated experience when developing
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In case you haven't seen this yet, the CTP release has been announced at http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2009/08/31/ado-net-data-services-v1-5-ctp2-now-available-for-download.aspx . Following the philosophy that folks like tables, here you go.
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Data, data, data everywhere... Go ahead and click - code samples ahead. http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/08/21/a-new-bridge-for-php-developers-to-net-through-rest-php-toolkit-for-ado-net-data-services.aspx Enjoy!
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Just run into this today - very nifty cheat sheet for ADO.NET Data Services. http://www.sadev.co.za/files/Posters/ADO.NET%20Data%20Services%20Cheat%20Sheet.pdf
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The announcement is available here . There's a video showing how to get started, a FAQ, and a link to give feedback and ask questions, so no need to wait - you can play with the future today!
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As recently announced , early preview bits are available for Astoria that provide synchronization capabilities, which allow you to create applications that work offline (among other things). Note that this announcement was made close to the "1.5" made
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If you haven't seen this yet, ADO.NET Data Services is announcing an upcoming CTP for the v1.5 functionality over here . And if you're wondering about what "1.5" means, yes, that's explained in the post. Some of the goodies that we've wanted for are in:
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Phani , master and commander of all things Astoria, has in his posession pictures of the latest ski trip... (yes, the team definitely knows how to have fun) This is just my way of publicly calling unto him to post them. Peer pressure in action!
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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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The $expand option in the query filter is used to request entities associated with the last segment of a request. This is often used to ensure that entities can be materialized with their relationships wired together and to reduce the number of roundtrips
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If you want to limit the number of entities returned from a service, you have a few alternatives... If you're writing code for the client, the easiest way is to just use the '$top' clause to limit how many entities will be returned. Note that '$top' doesn't
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I know this probably sounds kind of silly for a blog post, but: 9 times out of 10, if your ADO.NET filter isn't changing the results you get back, make sure you are using "path?$filter=f" rather than "path?filter=f". Turns out that without the '$' prefix,
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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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The post went up recently - find it over at http://blogs.msdn.com/aconrad/archive/2008/11/05/iupdateable-for-linq-to-sql.aspx . One of the things that I love about the interface is that, while it has a fair number of methods to implement (we wanted to
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