ADO.NET Data Services

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 held on August 20, 2008 in Reston, Va. This presentation is a demo focused walkthrough of the new features and functionality in SP1.  You will see demonstrations that will include:…

Pablo and one of our hot shot developers Waseem Basheer sit down for a brief discussion about a new Project Astoria incubation project that we have spun up for adding sync and offline support to ADO.NET Data Services.   The coolest thing is that we will have the preview bits available by…

Mike Flasko, ADO.NET Data Services PM, discusses some design work we have been doing around providing support for our #1 customer ask, the ability to ask for the count via the ADO.NET Data Services URI syntax. 

In our latest installment of the Astoria Design Walkthroughs there is no design, just plugs for the ADO.NET Data Services PDC talks.   Both Mike and Pablo are excellent speakers, so if you are at all interested in ADO.NET Data Services, try to catch their PDC talks. …

In the latest of the Astoria Design walkthroughs, Pablo Castro, ADO.NET Data Service architect, discusses the vision of introducing sync & offline capabilities into ADO.NET Data Services.  For those folks going to PDC that want to hear more, be sure to attend Pablo's talk…

In this interview Saaid Kahn, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team, shows us how to create an n-tier application against a database using ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and an Entity Data Model, both now available in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. ADO.NET Data Services use…

For V1 of ADO.NET Data Services (aka Project Astoria) we introduced a process we called Transparent Design.   The point of this was to make sure we got the design of our features out to users early enough so we could get feedback that we could act on.   Here is a couple of…