Pablo Castro's blog

During the design of Data Services (Astoria) v1 we did the transparent design thing. We're quite happy with the result, we got a lot of feedback and were able to adjust many aspects of the project based on that. Now that we're in full swing with v2 design Read More...

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...

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...

The technology and needs in the web space are broad and move fast. As we are building technology for that space with Project Astoria, we wanted to make sure we do it in a way that works well with the nature of the environment and the developer community Read More...