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Astoria Design Walkthrough: Alpha preview of Project Codename "Astoria Offline" coming soon

Andrew Conrad — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:56:00 GMT

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.

Astoria Design Walkthrough: Introducing $count as an URI query option

Andrew Conrad — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:52:00 GMT

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.

Astoria Design Walkthrough: No design... just plugging our PDC talks!

Andrew Conrad — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:51:00 GMT

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.

Astoria Design Walkthrough: Thinking of a future with sync & offline

Andrew Conrad — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:02:00 GMT

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.

Astoria Design Walkthrough: Friendly Feeds Part 1

Andrew Conrad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:15:00 GMT

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 samples:

http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2008/05/20/merge-vs-replace-semantics-for-update-operations.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2008/04/22/optimistic-concurrency-data-services.aspx

In general, this worked out quite well, however we found it difficult to completely capture the design discussion in notes. Hence, for Astoria vNext we are going to include short videos of folks from the team describing the design of the new features we are considering in addition to the usual design notes.

The first of these videos features Mike Flasko, Project Astoria Program Manager, describing the Friendly Feeds capabilities we are looking at for vNext. Enjoy!