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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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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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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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I am certain you ardently desire to keep up to date on everything Astoria (I mean, ADO.NET Data Services), so if you're going to the PDC, the sessions you'll want to go are listed here , along with a video showing Pablo and Mike plugging them. I especially
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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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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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The team blog has the announcement over at http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2008/08/11/rtm-is-here.aspx . All in all, we're very happy with this release - we hope you like it too, and it allows you to do a better and more productive job of writing
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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.
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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: +
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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When you are working with ADO.NET Data Services, errors are returned through the HTTP mechanism. Right now the most straightforward way of handling any errors on the client is by catching a WebException and using it. Something that is a bit obscure is
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