WCF Data Services Team Blog

Another nice Silverlight sample was posted today by Valeri. You can play with the app online here...

Author: dpblogs Date: 10/14/2008

Check out this interesting sample I came across today which loads data from an ADO.NET Data Service...

Author: dpblogs Date: 10/08/2008

The goal of Astoria in V1 is to easily expose a data source using the REST approach to the web (with...

Author: dpblogs Date: 09/28/2008

A refresh of our "Overview of ADO.NET Data Services" white paper is now up on MSDN here:...

Author: dpblogs Date: 09/10/2008

An update to our "Using ADO.NET Data Services" whitepaper is now available to match the bits just...

Author: dpblogs Date: 09/05/2008

As an offshoot of the feedback we got from different channels , ( Blogs , Direct emails to team...

Author: dpblogs Date: 09/02/2008

We have started creating a "How do I" video series for data services. A couple videos are already...

Author: dpblogs Date: 08/15/2008

Marcelo has a nice post detailing how to deal with a couple common cases that can cause 400...

Author: dpblogs Date: 08/15/2008

A few folks have asked about using the Silverlight Beta 2 client library against a data service...

Author: dpblogs Date: 08/12/2008

ADO.NET Data Services (aka “Project Astoria”) has Released! Today marks the official RTM...

Author: dpblogs Date: 08/11/2008

In some of our past posts, we've discussed one of the benefits of data services is that the...

Author: dpblogs Date: 07/11/2008

Are you at TechEd this week? If so, we have a few Astoria related sessions going on. If you are at...

Author: dpblogs Date: 06/03/2008

We have received a lot of questions lately about how to authenticate calls to an ADO.NET Data...

Author: dpblogs Date: 05/28/2008

So far Astoria has used “merge” semantics for update. That is, an “update”...

Author: dpblogs Date: 05/20/2008

Do you want to work on the next generation of data access APIs for the web? If so, the Astoria and...

Author: dpblogs Date: 05/18/2008

We are very excited to announce that .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta 1 are now...

Author: dpblogs Date: 05/12/2008

We have received a lot of feedback over the past few weeks asking when will be update the...

Author: dpblogs Date: 04/24/2008

Different applications have different requirements around consistency and how concurrent...

Author: dpblogs Date: 04/22/2008

Around a year ago in the Mix 2007 conference we announced Project Astoria, an overall initiative to...

Author: dpblogs Date: 04/14/2008

Astoria service allows reading/querying of data via the already-established IQueryable interface...

Author: dpblogs Date: 04/10/2008

We have received a fair amount of feedback regarding a number of use cases where it would be...

Author: dpblogs Date: 04/07/2008

(sorry, tricky problem -> long write-up) One of the few things pending in the server library of...

Author: dpblogs Date: 03/31/2008

We’re gearing up for the next release of the .NET Framework, and we are looking for people...

Author: dpblogs Date: 03/05/2008

Its been a year since Pablo first announced Project Astoria at MIX 07. Since then we've started from...

Author: dpblogs Date: 02/29/2008

While going through application scenarios for the ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Project Astoria)...

Author: dpblogs Date: 02/19/2008

We have been looking for the last few months at adding first-class support for AtomPub to Project...

Author: dpblogs Date: 02/14/2008

I've responded to a few posts on our online forums asking what the motivations were for building...

Author: dpblogs Date: 02/04/2008

We made few tweaks to our URI syntax to clean it up in the last CTP of ADO.NET Data Services....

Author: dpblogs Date: 01/14/2008

Marcelo from our team has posted a nice write up detailing how the $filter query string operator...

Author: dpblogs Date: 01/14/2008

A number of people have asked for an updated ADO.NET Data Services client library to run inside the...

Author: dpblogs Date: 01/11/2008

Problem statement Today in Astoria if you have two entity types that are functionally in a...

Author: dpblogs Date: 12/21/2007

While we worked hard to make it such that any HTTP client can easily consume an ADO.NET Data...

Author: dpblogs Date: 12/11/2007

Note: This post refers to the CTP available here. When building frameworks to expose and consume...

Author: dpblogs Date: 12/10/2007

The default serialization format for ADO.NET Data Services is now Atom instead of alternative...

Author: dpblogs Date: 12/10/2007

The first CTP of the production version of ADO.NET Data Services is now available for download here...

Author: dpblogs Date: 12/10/2007

A new name, but goals stay the same As per our last blog post, we just finished a round of...

Author: dpblogs Date: 12/07/2007

A few members of the Astoria team will be presenting on the technology in the coming month. We look...

Author: dpblogs Date: 10/29/2007

The question is: what data sources should Astoria support as inputs? Should we allow ADO.NET Entity...

Author: dpblogs Date: 09/27/2007

Deciding on something that becomes a public interface of a developer-oriented technology is a tricky...

Author: dpblogs Date: 09/21/2007

Some time ago we shipped Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and a couple of weeks later we added the ADO.NET...

Author: dpblogs Date: 09/18/2007

It's amazing to see how many people are building great things with Astoria so early in the cycle. We...

Author: dpblogs Date: 08/31/2007

It’s been some time now since we switched from “incubation mode”, where it was...

Author: dpblogs Date: 08/13/2007

At the Mix 2007 conference we announced an Astoria CTP which included two major pieces: CTP bits you...

Author: dpblogs Date: 08/03/2007

We have been looking at various options to ensure that the design of Astoria truly reflects the...

Author: dpblogs Date: 07/20/2007

Welcome to the Project Astoria Team Blog! The Astoria team (part of the “Data...

Author: dpblogs Date: 07/18/2007

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