Pablo Castro's blog

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Date: 06/15/2010

NOTE: this post was originally published on 5/20/10 but somehow disappeared, probably during the...

Date: 06/14/2010

While we focus on keeping things simple, the whole OData protocol does have a bunch of functionality...

Date: 01/26/2010

As I mentioned yesterday, we're working on HTML5 stuff in general here at Microsoft, and my team in...

Date: 01/05/2010

The HTML5* specification has been cooking for a while and lately the amount of buzz around it has...

Date: 01/04/2010

I haven't been writing much here, mostly because I've been way too busy but also because I couldn't...

Date: 10/19/2009

Just a few weeks after announcing the PHP toolkit for Data Services we now are happy to announce a...

Date: 09/28/2009

Yesterday we announced that the CTP 2 of the ADO.NET Data Services framework (yeah, Astoria) is...

Date: 09/01/2009

Folks in the interoperability team at Microsoft just announced something they've been cooking for a...

Date: 08/21/2009

Given how much of what we do in my team is related to the web (ADO.NET Data Services, System.Xml,...

Date: 03/13/2009

A few days ago we announced the big news about SQL Data Services (SDS) switching to being a full...

Date: 03/12/2009

We announced two releases this week, kind of usual but it worked out this way. The first one is the...

Date: 03/07/2009

JSONP is a common way of making data accessible in client-side mashups even when the requests need...

Date: 02/25/2009

The announcement of Windows Azure is a big milestone for us in the Astoria team. We got a chance to...

Date: 11/01/2008

Since we shipped ADO.NET Data Services v1 in .NET 3.5 SP1 (and actually before that as well) I've...

Date: 10/28/2008

During the design of Data Services (Astoria) v1 we did the transparent design thing. We're quite...

Date: 09/28/2008

I've been sort of under a rock for a while, but I thought I'd come out for a minute to celebrate....

Date: 08/11/2008

Roger just tagged me for this software development meme thing…it looks like Julia tagged him, Shawn...

Date: 07/11/2008

The news are out. The ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Astoria) and the ADO.NET Entity Framework...

Date: 05/12/2008

There are fresh news about ADO.NET provider support here, and there is an official looking statement...

Date: 05/07/2008

The Astoria team builds the ADO.NET Data Services Framework and works on creative projects in the...

Date: 04/23/2008

As part of the Astoria design process we scanned through many topics, some of them are...

Date: 04/22/2008

As David Treadwell announced yesterday, we are starting to align the Windows Live services...

Date: 02/29/2008

Jon Udell wrote a brief piece on how data is locked on servers behind UIs that were not designed for...

Date: 02/20/2008

Greg is a great interviewer, I'm sure you'll enjoy this conversation. In this occasion we did a bit...

Date: 02/05/2008

A few folks sent me email asking about idempotence on Astoria operations over the HTTP/REST...

Date: 12/22/2007

There is a number of folks that have been writing about Astoria. Collectively they built a lot of...

Date: 12/21/2007

We just released the December 2007 CTP of Project Astoria, or I guess I should say the ADO.NET Data...

Date: 12/10/2007

I had the chance to talk with Guy in TechEd Europe in Barcelona a few weeks ago. He has been looking...

Date: 12/03/2007

It's exciting to see how a whole ecosystem of development tools, samples and working sites is...

Date: 11/27/2007

A few weeks ago I had a great conversation with Richard and Carl, the folks from .NET Rocks. Here is...

Date: 11/14/2007

I'll be attending TechEd Developers EMEA in Barcelona, Span next week. I'll be giving talks on...

Date: 10/24/2007

We're trying to keep up posting regularly on the design aspects of Astoria we have on the table week...

Date: 09/29/2007

We got many emails lately asking whether we were going to ship a version of the Astoria CTP that...

Date: 09/18/2007

As much as I'd like to say that formats are a low-level thing that most consumers of the technology...

Date: 09/10/2007

Almost exactly a year ago Mike, Britt and I did a Channel 9 episode where we talked about the Entity...

Date: 08/30/2007

Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2 shipped a few weeks ago and folks have been asking how to work with the...

Date: 08/29/2007

If you're interested in joining Microsoft and working in the Astoria team, check this out. If you...

Date: 08/13/2007

Since we put out the new version of the experimental Astoria online service there has been a broad...

Date: 08/09/2007

I've seen a few instances on posts to forums or blogs asking whether Astoria continues to be an...

Date: 08/07/2007

When we announced Project Astoria at Mix 2007 last May we made the toolkit available along with a...

Date: 08/03/2007

The technology and needs in the web space are broad and move fast. As we are building technology for...

Date: 07/20/2007

Last May when we shipped the first CTP of Microsoft Codename “Astoria” we included a client library...

Date: 07/12/2007

Last week I had a great conversation with Jon Udell about Astoria. Jon is a great interviewer and he...

Date: 07/03/2007

We still have more questions than answers on what is the appropriate security story for data...

Date: 05/21/2007

Charles from Channel9 came by my office a week or two ago and recorded this video where we discussed...

Date: 05/07/2007

When you combine technologies such as Silverlight or AJAX-style applications with Astoria there is...

Date: 05/04/2007

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