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 end of year – so folks can get in early and play with the new functionality plus give feedback on the features early on in our design process.

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.    Also, pay close attention to what Pablo doesn’t say about the 3rd talk.  Apparently the content is very top secret, at least I couldn’t get much information.

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 Offline-Enabled Data Services and Desktop Applications.  Also on the Astoria team blog is write up of the proposed design.