PDC - OData

Breaking Down ‘Data Silos’ – The Open Data Protocol (OData)

November 17, 2009 Nov 17, 2009 11/17/09

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A few weeks ago we posted about steps we’ve been taking to enable a wide range of data sources (DB, SharePoint, Reports, Cloud storage services, etc) to expose their data for programmatic access from any platform (Java, PHP, Silverlight, .NET, AJAX, etc) using a simple HTTP/AtomPub based protocol as the means of communication. Our ...

Simplifying our n-tier development platform: making 3 things 1 thing

November 17, 2009 Nov 17, 2009 11/17/09

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As you’ve probably observed, we’ve been working hard over the past year or so to grow our application stacks to better support the types of applications (Silverlight, rich desktop, AJAX, etc) and services (SOAP, REST, etc) that are required to build modern, robust solutions. At present, a few of the technologies we have to help in ...

Data Services Content @ PDC

October 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008 10/31/08

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PDC is done for another year. We had a great time presenting and chatting everyone. Thanks for all your thoughtful feedback! If you didn't make it to all the data services PDC sessions.... First: Shame on you. Second: Here is a summary (with links to recordings) of the data services focused sessions at PDC: &#...

See you at PDC

October 24, 2008 Oct 24, 2008 10/24/08

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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...