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Customizable Feed Support in CTP2

Phani, a data services team member, has updated his three part series on Customizable Feeds (aka. “Web Friendly Feeds”) for the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 release.  Check out his updated series here: Introducing Web Friendly Feeds aka Friendly Feeds (Updated for CTP2) ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping EDM Types...

ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 – Now Available for Download

CTP2 of our ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 release is now available for download here.  ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 is the second tech preview release of the next version of ADO.NET Data Services.  This release (v1.5) will target the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 & Silverlight 3 platforms and provide new client and server side features ...

Announcing the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services

This morning the Microsoft Interoperability team announced the release of a new project that bridges PHP and.NET: the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services. The toolkit makes it easier for PHP developers to connect to and take advantage of services built using ADO.NET Data Services. The PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services is an open source ...

Using Server Driven Paging

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 ...

Data Services “Cheat Sheet”

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 (image)   -Mike Flasko...

Using ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

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 ...

Proxy to Enable Cross Domain Requests When Using Silverlight 2 and Data Services

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...

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

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

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

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 ...