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Oh yah–new windows phone 7 release for WCF Data Services also!
Let the releases roll! New WCF Data Service client for Windows Phone 7. This is an update to the WCF...
Author: aconrad Date: 10/28/2010
New WCF Data Services CTP now available!
As of yesterday, we have a new CTP available for WCF Data Services here. This release includes...
Author: aconrad Date: 10/28/2010
Project Astoria == ADO.NET Data Services == WCF Data Services
As announced at PDC this afternoon by Pablo, the ADO.NET Data Services framework is being renamed...
Author: aconrad Date: 11/18/2009
ODBC for the web
Yesterday at PDC and via the Project Astoria team blog, we announced the Open Data Protocol (OData)...
Author: aconrad Date: 11/18/2009
DevConnections slides and demo
Here is my slides and demo from the talk I gave last week at DevConnections: “DAO01: What’s New in...
Author: aconrad Date: 11/17/2009
Peter Qian and row count
Peter Qian, the newest member of the ADO.NET Data Services, now has his own blog. In his initial...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/18/2009
updated Linq to Sql IUpdatable implementation
Based on feedback from Robert Fonseca-Ensor, I have made a bunch of bug and performance fixes to the...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/17/2009
Astoria v1.5 CTP now available
In the fine tradition of Saint Patrick's Day we have released the first CTP of ADO.NET Data Services...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/17/2009
VSlive Presentations and demos
Last week I presented two talks about ADO.NET Data Services at VSLive in San Francisco. As promised...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/05/2009
OOB == Out of Band
Yesterday we announced that we will be releasing an update to ADO.NET Data Services that we are...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/02/2009
Using timeout setting with Astoria client
Believe it or not, but we did ship ADO.NET Data Services with a few bugs. One...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/13/2009
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services with John Papa
On Wednesday John Papa will be giving a webcast about anything and everything you ever wanted to...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/16/2008
What is IUpdatable? Why should I care?
Over the past few weeks I have posted a couple of samples of implementing IUpdateable for non-EF...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/15/2008
Attention! Phani on Deck!
One of the most common feature requests we hear for Astoria is the ability to mark properties on an...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/12/2008
IUpdateable for Linq to Sql - Fixing a few issues
Finally got IUpdateable.ResetResource() for Linq To Sql working correctly. This means that...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/11/2008
Developing aN Astoria data provider for SubSonic
I have developed a data provider for SubSonic to enable it as a ADO.NET Data Services data source....
Author: aconrad Date: 12/05/2008
Slides for my ASP.NET Connections Sessions
As promised the slides & demos for my two ASP.NET Connections talks from 11/11/08: MDA01: Deep...
Author: aconrad Date: 11/11/2008
IUpdateable for Linq To Sql
IUpdatable for Linq to Sql I have had an implementation of IUpdateable for Linq to Sql about half...
Author: aconrad Date: 11/05/2008
Linq to anything
Along with my manager Shyam Pather, I am giving the following talk at the upcoming Dev Connections...
Author: aconrad Date: 10/31/2008
New Windows Live Services will be compatible with Astoria
The news is out! At Mix, Windows Live will be announcing several new Live Services with AtomPub...
Author: aconrad Date: 02/28/2008
Project Astoria Links for 1/15/08
Michael Sync has written a sample using the new Astoria Silverlight client library. David Hayden...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/15/2008
VB version of CopyToDataTable
Matthew Wills ported my original C# CopyToDataTable<T> Linq operator to VB. According to him,...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/14/2008
Updated Astoria Silverlight client now available
The updated Astoria Silverlight client is now available. This client is 95% compatible with the...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/11/2008
Pathetic Plea for help
A number of people have asked me for a VB version of the CopyToDataTable<T> sample I wrote a...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/11/2008
Server errors and the Astoria client
Marcelo Lopez Ruiz, a developer on the Astoria team, has written a nice post describing how to deal...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/31/2007
Project Astoria Links for 12/18/07
Jonathan Carter is in the midst of writing a 11 Part (!) Training Series about ADO.NET Data...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/18/2007
Linq to REST
Late Sunday night we released the first public preview of ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions. For information on...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/10/2007
191 Miles to Astoria
A couple of months ago I became Development Lead for Project Astoria. The goal of...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/11/2007
Project Jasper sample
Tok Wee Hyong of the .Net Singapore user group has put together a nice Project Jasper sample...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/10/2007
Science Project
In the original Linq CTP and the first Orcas Beta, we included a DataSet specific Linq operator...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/07/2007
We are going Agile!
Over the last few months, it dawned on us that if we were writing software apis/ frameworks (Jasper,...
Author: aconrad Date: 06/13/2007
Three more books + Andrew Conrad trivia
Scott Hanselman has blogged about what he thinks is the Six Essential Language Agnostic Programming...
Author: aconrad Date: 06/13/2007
Excellent Astoria article by the author of my new favorite geek book
Leonard Richardson, the coauthor of my new favorite geek book Restful Web Services has an excellent...
Author: aconrad Date: 06/11/2007
ORMs and changing data stores
The folks at Rails Envy have posted a bunch of funny parodies of the "Mac vs PC" pitting ROR versus...
Author: aconrad Date: 06/11/2007
Project Jasper overview now online
The overview doc is now online here. We hope to add to it in the next couple of months, so I will...
Author: aconrad Date: 06/06/2007
Always be lazy
Scott Bellware has an interesting post about Lazy Load in ORMs. IMHO, I prefer eager load of all...
Author: aconrad Date: 06/04/2007
Greatest Book Store in the World
I am down in Portland Oregon over the weekend for RailsConf. During lunch today, I decided to drop...
Author: aconrad Date: 05/18/2007
Some comments about comments and other ramblings about Project Jasper
Over the last week or so we have been trying to gather information on what developers are saying...
Author: aconrad Date: 05/11/2007
A walkthrough the Jasper API with IronPython - Part 1
This blog post is part one of my walkthrough of the Jasper API in IronPython. In our Channel 9...
Author: aconrad Date: 05/10/2007
Jasper team Channel 9 interview
Before Mix07, the Jasper project team filmed a Channel 9 interview. Check it out here if you are...
Author: aconrad Date: 05/08/2007
Jasper and C#
The question “Is Jasper useable from c#?” came up on the Jasper forum. The short answer is – We...
Author: aconrad Date: 05/04/2007
Jasper Mix07 session is now online
Hear Shyam talk about Canadian sheep and see some cool Jasper demos. Recorded earlier today, the...
Author: aconrad Date: 05/02/2007
jasper links
Some interesting links from my coworkers about Project Jasper: Shyam Pather, who is currently...
Author: aconrad Date: 05/01/2007
Project Astoria
In addition to Project Jasper, the ADO.NET team is also releasing a second incubation project at...
Author: aconrad Date: 04/30/2007
Project Jasper!
At the Mix07 conference this week, we will be announcing Project Jasper – aka Dynamic ADO.net....
Author: aconrad Date: 04/30/2007
'foo' is a 'variable' but is used like a 'method'
Over the last several months, because of my current project I have had to program in a bunch of...
Author: aconrad Date: 04/27/2007
Deus ex machina
As I am sure a lot of people have heard, Kurt Vonnegut passed away yesterday. He is easily my...
Author: aconrad Date: 04/13/2007
Mix07
The Mix 07 talk has been posted for what I have been working on for the last year: Rapidly Building...
Author: aconrad Date: 04/02/2007