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February 2008 - OData

MIX08 is almost here…

February 29, 2008 Feb 29, 2008 02/29/08
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Its been a year since Pablo first announced Project Astoria at MIX 07.  Since then we've started from scratch and build a production version of the product which is now known as the ADO.NET Data Services Framework.  At the MIX conference this time around we'll have a bunch of sessions to talk about how the ADO.NET Data Services ...

Related entries and feeds: links and link expansion

February 19, 2008 Feb 19, 2008 02/19/08
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While going through application scenarios for the ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Project Astoria) one of the first things we noticed is that data-centric applications usually want to bring down graphs of related resources in each interaction with the server. For example, if you are retrieving a resource that represents an "Event", you may ...

AtomPub support in the ADO.NET Data Services Framework

February 14, 2008 Feb 14, 2008 02/14/08
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  We have been looking for the last few months at adding first-class support for AtomPub to Project Astoria (we briefly touched on it before here). We are at a point where we have some parts of the AtomPub story and their initial implementation running (and we'll share fresh experimental bits soon), some parts on the design board and ...

Why ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka Astoria)?

February 4, 2008 Feb 4, 2008 02/4/08
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I've responded to a few posts on our online forums asking what the motivations were for building Astoria.  After one of our recent posts to the forums a comment was left that the replies would be a good blog post.  So, what follows is a few of my responses to those forums questions appended together and touched up a bit so they can ...