Technorati Tags: PDC2008 A few of us from the Astoria team will be at PDC this year.  If you are heading to the conference and want to chat about data services, drop us a note or we'll likely bump into you in the lounge / discussion areas. Below is a short video that talks about the data services sessions that will be at the conference. ...

We mentioned that we were doing some early thinking of “Astoria Offline” back in Mix 2008, where we even demo’ed an early proof of concept. Now we’ve been working on various design aspects of Data Services for its future versions, and synchronization/offline support is one of them. It’s still an experimental thing with...

Another nice Silverlight sample was posted today by Valeri.  You can play with the app online here and a description of how it is built along with source is here.   -Mike Flasko ADO.NET Data Services, Program Manager

Check out this interesting sample I came across today which loads data from an ADO.NET Data Service into a Telerik tree view control on demand: https://blogs.telerik.com/ValeriHristov/Posts/08-10-08/Silverlight_TreeView_Load_on_Demand.aspx   -Mike Flasko ADO.NET Data Services Program Manager

The goal of Astoria in V1 is to easily expose a data source using the REST approach to the web (with support for concurrency, versioning, auth, etc).  In general, the way we think about serialization formats (ie. how we represent entites on the wire) is that they are a tool and an application will select the best tool (ie. serialization format...

A refresh of our "Overview of ADO.NET Data Services" white paper is now up on MSDN here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc956153.aspx .  The document is meant to cover the high-level concepts for the product.  A companion paper "Using ADO.NET Data Services" published a little while ago complements this overview with details on p...

An update to our "Using ADO.NET Data Services" whitepaper is now available to match the bits just released with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.  You can find the paper on MSDN here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc907912.aspx.  The document is intended to be a good way to go from 0 to 60 with data services and touches on many aspec...

As an offshoot of the feedback we got from different channels , ( Blogs , Direct emails to team members , our discussion forums, etc) we are releasing an “interim build” of the data services  Silverlight client which works with the  Silverlight 2 Beta 2 runtime ,and works with the RTM ADO.NET Data Services Server released as part of .Net ...

We have started creating a "How do I" video series for data services.  A couple videos are already posted here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/cc300162.aspx.  We have a number of ideas for future videos and a few more yet to publish, but if you have ideas for videos you would like to see please do let us know.   Mike Flasko AD...

Marcelo has a nice post detailing how to deal with a couple common cases that can cause 400 responses from a data service.  Check it out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/marcelolr/archive/2008/04/01/fixing-400-bad-request-replies-from-asp-net-when-using-ado-net-data-services.aspx   Mike Flasko ADO.NET Data Services, Program Manager