Data Services

A new book, SQL Server Hardware, tells you what you need to know about your hardware before you create your database. The book by Most Valued Professional Glenn Berry of Newsgator describes how you can determine your hardware requirements for SQL Server.Glenn shares his expertise…

The Archivist is a new lab/website from Mix Online that lets people archive, analyze and export tweets. Here’s a little more about why we built The Archivist and who we built it for. Sounds good, guys. Now, let's go learn about what this really means and how/why Karsten and Tim built…

Datacastle provides a way for businesses to protect vulnerable data with backup, recovery, encryption, and even data shredding if laptops might be lost or stolen. The data protection server console manage protection is both on premises and hosted in Windows Azure. It also includes a Web…

Recorded Live at Philly.NET CodeCamp April 2010http://codecamp.phillydotnet.org/2010-1Want more details on why you should attend a Microsoft Community Code Camp?SummaryOData and WCF Data Services makes it very easy to build data centric WCF Services.  In this session you will learn how to…

This podcast was recorded at TechEd Europe in November 2009. I get a chance to sit down with Mike Flasko, Program Manager in the Data Services team. We had both presented on Entity Framework during the conference which is where we started the discussion before we moved on to talk about Data…

In this installment of DevNuggets, Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie (aka DEvHammer) demonstrates how you can easily add fun and function to your ASP.NET-based website using jQueryUI.This DevNugget is a follow-up to Andrew's introduction to using jQueryUI in ASP.NET and in it you'll…

Claudio Caldato, Senior Program Manager in the Interoperability Technical Strategy team and Pablo Castro, software architect of ADO.NET Data Services introduce a new project that bridges PHP and .NET: the Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services. The PHP Toolkit  is an open source…

In this episode of 10-4, we discuss a new feature coming in the next release of ADO.NET Data Services: server-driven paging. This allows you to constrain the size of result sets that can be requested by clients, eliminating potentially problematic scenarios. In addition, clients can also now…

Once the initial allure of the cool graphics and animation capabilities of Silverlight has passed, you’ll probably say to yourself, "Hey, my app needs data too!" Well, this session delivers on that – not once, not twice, but thrice! We’ll look at accessing remote data services from…

REST (Representational State Transfer) is all the rage as a lightweight, web service architecture that relies on existing web standards such as HTTP and XML.  In this session, you’ll get insight into the roots of REST, including its four main tenets, and be able to critically discern how…