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This post is a drill down into the Server Driven Paging (SDP) feature added in data services v1.5 CTP1.  Since this is the first CTP release of this feature we look forward to hearing your feedback. What is Server Driven Paging? This feature is best described by example.  If you had a data service that exposes photos, you would likely wan...

Peter Qian, a developer on the data services team, has posted a nice write up describing the row count feature in the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 release we made available for download yesterday. You can check out Peter's Row Count write up here. Also, we have created a new forum dedicated to providing feedback on "pre-release" ver...

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 not ...

In October of last year we started to talk publicly about an exploration project we called “Astoria Offline”, we showed a working version of it at PDC 2008 and we said we would ship the experimental bits as soon as we could. It ended up taking us longer than we thought to get a shipping package in reasonable shape (i.e. we had to clea...

It's been a little while since we've written about the future direction of data services, so this post is intended to layout our thinking towards our next release.  The release described below isn't yet available, but should be in the coming months, so stay tuned :).  The rest of this post will discuss the specifics of the release being a...

Beth Massi has been busy creating a number of great posts describing how to build add-ins to Excel, Outlook, Word, etc to work with data from an ADO.NET Data Service.  The articles can be found here: ADO.NET Data Services - Building an Excel Client OBA Part 1 - Exposing Line-of-Business Data OBA Part 2 - Building an Outlook Client against LOB ...

Believe it or not, but we did ship ADO.NET Data Services with a few bugs.    One issue in particular is fairly nasty.   However the code developers might be tempted to write to work around the bug could cause far worse problems down the road when we fix the initial bug.  Hence I wanted to give a quick write up to descr...