Pablo Castro's blog

Almost exactly a year ago Mike, Britt and I did a Channel 9 episode where we talked about the Entity Framework and we said that we were going to have a runtime that would expose an EDM view of the database, and we also said that we were going to have Read More...

Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2 shipped a few weeks ago and folks have been asking how to work with the Entity Framework using the new Beta. Well, a couple of days ago we shipped the Beta 2 of the Entity Framework, which will integrate nicely with Visual Studio Read More...

If you're interested in joining Microsoft and working in the Astoria team, check this out . If you have any questions about this or if you want to send you resume directly, shoot me an email . -pablo Read More...

Since we put out the new version of the experimental Astoria online service there has been a broad set of questions coming, which is great because it was the goal of the thing...we're learning a bunch from it. A class of questions that we are getting Read More...

I've seen a few instances on posts to forums or blogs asking whether Astoria continues to be an experiment or an incubation project or has become something else ( this one prompted me to write this). So in the interest of transparency and to make sure Read More...

When we announced Project Astoria at Mix 2007 last May we made the toolkit available along with a few samples as an online service. The missing piece there was the ability to create your own service online in the experimental setting we had setup. Now Read More...