In a recent episode of the 10-4 show, Jonathan Carter walks through one of the new features coming in the next version of ADO.NET Data Services known as "Server Driven Paging".  You can find the video here: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-27-Server-Driven-Paging-with-ADONET-Data-Services/   Enjoy! -Mike Flasko ADO.N...

Thanks to Robert Maclean for creating a data services "cheat sheet".  You can get it here: https://www.sadev.co.za/content/adonet-data-services-cheat-sheet   -Mike Flasko

We recently released a CTP of the next set of things we are working on for ADO.NET Data Services. We are calling this new set of features v1.5 because they are built on top of ADO.NET Data Services v1.0. ADO.NET Data Services v1.0 was included as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and so the CTP also was built to use .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio ...

Tom Laird-McConnell has created a nice post showing how to mid-tier proxy to enable calling data services across domains.  His proxy supports CRUD operations and $expand. http://blogs.msdn.com/tom_laird-mcconnell/archive/2009/03/25/creating-an-ado-net-data-service-proxy-as-workaround-for-silverlight-ado-net-cross-domain-issue.aspx We're hopi...

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 recommend che...

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 Types Pa...

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 Service...

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-release...

This blog post is an introduction to the data binding capabilities we have added in Data Services v1.5 CTP1. Since this is a CTP release of this feature we eagerly look forward to hearing your feedback. Introduction to Data Binding In ADO.NET Data Services, it is now possible to generate client side types that implement the INotifyPropertyChanged a...

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...