OData

Design Notes: Row Count

December 15, 2008 Dec 15, 2008 12/15/08

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One of the scenarios we have heard feedback around is the ability for the a client of a data service to determine the total number of entities in a set without having to retrieve them all. The following video discusses this scenario in more detail and some of our thoughts regarding how to make the experience better.    Astoria ...

Alpha preview of Project Codename "Astoria Offline" coming soon

November 3, 2008 Nov 3, 2008 11/3/08

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As we already discussed in a previous blog post, one of the problem spaces related to data services we’d like to take on is synchronization-capable services, enabling offline scenarios. We’re still in the early stages of the project, where direction can be adjusted and good feedback can be very influential. Giving good feedback ...

Making Feeds Friendly

September 28, 2008 Sep 28, 2008 09/28/08

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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 ...