ADO.NET

You've seen a few conversations on Channel 9 about Microsoft's Entity Framework. Well, it's time for another one, but with a new twist...Brian Beckman recently had a deep technical chat with Sam Druker about the Entity Framework data model and related technologies. Sam is GM of…

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. 

Meet Pablo Castro one of the folks behind Astoria.  Astoria exposes "data services" that enable applications to access and manipulate data over regular HTTP connections, using URIs to identify pieces of information within the data service, and simple payload formats such as XML and…

If you haven't heard about it, DinnerNow is a demo app that shows off... well, just about everything. WPF, WCF, Powershell, and more. If you like what you see here, head out to the DinnerNow site for links to the application and the source. Fun group of people. Jason Olson was there, too -…

The next version of the Entity Framework adds scenarios in the areas of model driven development, domain driven development, simplicity, and integration. See a preview of production and prototype code for the next version of the Entity Framework as well as a candid discussion with members of the…

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…

In the near future, applications will be developed using a combination of custom application code and online building block services, including data-centric services. In this session we discuss advancements in the Microsoft development platform and online service interfaces to enable seamless…

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…

You develop your conceptual mode first then create the database and write application. This is new in ADO.NET Entity Framework 4. Let’s see how we can do it. Stay Tuned Wriju Ghosh   http://blog.msdn.com/b/wriju

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…