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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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We're on a roll: Java client for Data Services announced

Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 6:14 PM by pabloc
Just a few weeks after announcing the PHP toolkit for Data Services we now are happy to announce a Java toolkit for consuming Data Services that follow the Astoria RESTful data services pattern. The library ships as an extension to the existing Java Restlet Read More...
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ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2!

Posted Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:27 AM by pabloc
Yesterday we announced that the CTP 2 of the ADO.NET Data Services framework (yeah, Astoria) is available for download. We put in a ton of work on this release, ranging from adding better support for high-end services to making it easier to write applications Read More...
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PHP toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services

Posted Friday, August 21, 2009 9:42 AM by pabloc
Folks in the interoperability team at Microsoft just announced something they've been cooking for a while, developed Persistent Systems : a client PHP toolkit for Astoria services. It follows more or less the model of the .NET client where you can run Read More...
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Mix 2009 next week in Las Vegas

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 3:16 PM by pabloc
Given how much of what we do in my team is related to the web (ADO.NET Data Services, System.Xml, etc.), Mix is one of the events I look forward every year, both to share some of the stuff we're working on and to hear from attendees who are building real-world Read More...
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SQL Data Services goes full relational

Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:42 AM by pabloc
A few days ago we announced the big news about SQL Data Services (SDS) switching to being a full relational database on the cloud. I’ve been a strong supporter of this path for a number of reasons. Relational databases are very well understood and there Read More...
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Busy week: ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP coming and "Astoria Offline" preview out

Posted Saturday, March 07, 2009 3:57 PM by pabloc
We announced two releases this week, kind of usual but it worked out this way. The first one is the first CTP of ADO.NET Data Services v1.5. This is the next version of "Astoria" or the ADO.NET Data Services framework, and it includes a number of enhancements Read More...
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Adding support for JSONP and URL-controlled format to ADO.NET Data Services

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:29 PM by pabloc
JSONP is a common way of making data accessible in client-side mashups even when the requests need to be cross-domain. While the current version of the ADO.NET Data Services framework does not support this, it’s possible to build it on top. There are 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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Now you know...it's Windows Azure

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:02 PM by pabloc
Since we shipped ADO.NET Data Services v1 in .NET 3.5 SP1 (and actually before that as well) I've been working on a few things that I could share (such as offline/sync support for data services) and some that I couldn't discuss publicly until all the Read More...
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Trying something: short videos in our design notes

Posted Sunday, September 28, 2008 3:32 PM by pabloc
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...
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Timeline of Project Astoria

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:28 PM by pabloc
It's amazing how much information is there in our email archives. Now that we've shipped the thing, I thought I would share my summarized (still long), partial view of how the ADO.NET Data Services Framework ("Project Astoria") came to be. I 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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Software Development Meme

Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:39 PM by pabloc
Roger just tagged me for this software development meme thing…it looks like Julia tagged him, Shawn tagged Julia, etc. so all the usual suspects have been down this path already. I’ll bite… How old were you when you first started programming? I got my Read More...
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Data Services and Entity Framework beta bits available

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 10:48 AM by pabloc
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...
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