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Microsoft Power Query in Power BI suite

I'm really excited today to be able to write about what I was working on for the past year. It is...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 07/08/2013

Your WebAPP’s Worst Performance Bottleneck Maybe in the CSS Stylesheet

Recently our team is making a big push for general UI performance improvements. Our UI layer is...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 05/07/2012

Serializing the WCF Data Service Client State

With the release of Windows Phone 7, developers using WCF Data Service Client often find themselves...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 03/21/2011

Using ASP.net Output Caching with WCF Data Services

We all know hitting the database is an expensive operation, adding the cost of serialization on top...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 11/16/2010

Using WCF Data Service With Restricted Characters as Keys

If you are hosting your WCF Data Service on top of IIS+ASP.Net/WCF, then you may discover that there...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 05/24/2010

Overwriting the service root URI in Wcf Data Service

Suppose you are hosting a WCF Data Service on a particular URL, but for some reason you’d like the...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 03/23/2010

SDET Openings in Our Team

For those of you who love the technology, and want to put your amazing skills to good use – well,...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 01/26/2010

WCF Data Service V2 and the updated JSON format

In V1 of WCF Data Service (aka ADO.net Data Service), the JSON serialization format for entity sets...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 01/20/2010

Versioning Protocol of Astoria II

In my previous post on the protocol versioning scheme for Astoria, I've explained the two HTTP...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 09/28/2009

Working with Local Entities in Astoria Client

Although the Astoria client is really designed to query data existing in some remote service...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 04/23/2009

Versioning Protocol of Astoria

Now that CTP1 of Astoria has been made public, we have two different versions of server and client...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 04/02/2009

Safe Resource Not Found (404) Exception Handling in ADO.net Data Service Client

There are many situations where you may encounter an undesired 404 “Resource Not Found” exception...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 03/20/2009

Getting Row Count in ADO.Net Data Services

The recent CTP release of ADO.Net Data Services (Astoria) V1.5 contains a nice feature that allows...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 03/17/2009

ADO.net Data Services V1.5 Community Tech Preview!

The ADO.net Data Services (Code name Astoria) V1.5 CTP1 bits has been released on download center,...

Author: Peter Qian - MSFT Date: 03/17/2009