ADO.NET Data Services and the “new” SQL Data Services

DB Blogs March 29, 2009 Mar 29, 2009 03/29/09

If you haven't seen yet, the SQL Data Services team announced some excited news at this past MIX conference.  Effectively they have decided to support full relational capabilities in SDS.  Much has been written about this already, including a description of how this will layer naturally with ADO.NET Data Services :).  I ...

More on Web Friendly Feeds in ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1

DB Blogs March 29, 2009 Mar 29, 2009 03/29/09

Phani, a member of the data services team, has continued his great series on Web Friendly Feeds with a look at how to map entity values to custom markup.  You can find all his posts to date on Web Friendly Feeds here: Part 1:Introducing Web Friendly Feeds aka Friendly Feeds Part 2:ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping CLR ...

Using ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 with Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3

DB Blogs March 29, 2009 Mar 29, 2009 03/29/09

We received a few questions asking if CTP1 of ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 includes a Silverlight library.   The short answer is yes, we included a Silverlight library initially intended for use with Silverlight 2.   Once you install v1.5 of data services, you can find the SL library in the "Program Files\ADO.NET Data ...

ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 – Web Friendly Feeds

DB Blogs March 21, 2009 Mar 21, 2009 03/21/09

Phani, a data services test team member, has posted two nice write ups describing the "web friendly feeds" feature in the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 release we made available for download yesterday. You can check out Phani's posts here and here. Also, we have created a new forum dedicated to providing feedback on "pre-...

ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 — Now Available for Download

DB Blogs March 16, 2009 Mar 16, 2009 03/16/09

Two weeks ago we announced the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 release.  Today we're very happy to say CTP1 of  ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 is now available for download.  You can get the bits by clicking here. This first CTP release is intended to allow exploration, prototyping and early development.  It is not supported and is...