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Every SharePoint 2010 server is a Data Services server

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 11:26 PM by pabloc
I haven't been writing much here, mostly because I've been way too busy but also because I couldn't discuss publicly many of the things I'm doing. Now that SharePoint 2010 has been announced and its feature set published everywhere, I can finally discuss Read More...
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ADO.NET Data Services in Windows Azure: pushing scalability to the next level

Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:40 PM by pabloc
The announcement of Windows Azure is a big milestone for us in the Astoria team. We got a chance to add our little contribution to the platform by providing data service interfaces for a couple of the Azure services. Currently there are two services that Read More...
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Coming from under the rocks just to celebrate for a bit

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 7:46 PM by pabloc
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...
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REST and Concurrency Control

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:13 PM by pabloc
As part of the Astoria design process we scanned through many topics, some of them are straightforward, some are hard but mostly mechanical, but there are some that become interesting, fundamental aspects to address. I found the problem of concurrency Read More...
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"Data Friction", spot-on

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:22 PM by pabloc
Jon Udell wrote a brief piece on how data is locked on servers behind UIs that were not designed for data sharing. He views this as "data friction"...it's just the perfect way to describe the problem. I couldn't agree more with Jon's take. I would even Read More...
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Seriously good content on creating and using data services

Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 12:30 PM by pabloc
There is a number of folks that have been writing about Astoria. Collectively they built a lot of reference material that is probably the best reference point for getting started and learning about practical aspects around creating and using data services Read More...
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Project Astoria December CTP is out!

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 9:56 AM by pabloc
We just released the December 2007 CTP of Project Astoria, or I guess I should say the ADO.NET Data Services framework as Mike pointed out . This is an important milestone for Astoria, as this is the first release that is based on the real, production Read More...
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Two more Astoria design posts: URIs and data sources

Posted Saturday, September 29, 2007 8:49 AM by pabloc
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...
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Astoria CTP for Visual Studio 2008 is here

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:47 AM by pabloc
We got many emails lately asking whether we were going to ship a version of the Astoria CTP that would work with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 2. Well, it’s out now. You can read about it in the Astoria Team blog and Read More...
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What's your take on the wire formats Astoria should support?

Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 12:10 PM by pabloc
As much as I'd like to say that formats are a low-level thing that most consumers of the technology shouldn't need to worry about, the reality is that payload format for a data service is something that a lot of folks care about. Since we started with Read More...
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ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 2 is out, with tools :)

Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:33 AM by pabloc
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...
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A data service is not a database

Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:13 PM by pabloc
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...
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We'll host an experimental Astoria data service for you

Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 3:49 PM by pabloc
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...
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Astoria Client for Silverlight Alpha 1.1

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:22 PM by pabloc
Last May when we shipped the first CTP of Microsoft Codename “Astoria” we included a client library in addition to the components for the server. The original client library can be used from .NET applications in cases where you do not want to develop Read More...
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Podcast interview with Jon Udell

Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:20 AM by pabloc
Last week I had a great conversation with Jon Udell about Astoria . Jon is a great interviewer and he knows how to explore a topic in his own style, so you get to hear about Astoria from a different perspective, without having to listen to my "standard Read More...
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