Pablo Castro's blog

I've been sort of under a rock for a while, but I thought I'd come out for a minute to celebrate. Today we made available .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. There are two components in the release I spent a bunch of time on, which interestingly Read More...

The news are out. The ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Astoria) and the ADO.NET Entity Framework will be shipping as part of .NET 3.5 SP1, and the Beta 1 release is now available . All the official blogs discussed the details already, including the Astoria Read More...

There are fresh news about ADO.NET provider support here , and there is an official looking statement from last December with more details here . The ADO.NET Entity Framework is designed so that the upper layers of the system are database-independent. Read More...

I'll be attending TechEd Developers EMEA in Barcelona, Span next week. I'll be giving talks on Astoria, the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ. If you'll be around and want to chat I'll be around the conference most of the time that I'm not speaking. See Read More...

We're trying to keep up posting regularly on the design aspects of Astoria we have on the table week by week. In this last week we discussed a couple of important topics in the team blog. First we touched on URIs . The URI syntax is a very visible part Read More...

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...