Project Codename "Astoria"

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 ...

Astoria futures: offline-enabled data services

October 22, 2008 Oct 22, 2008 10/22/08

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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...

URI Format – Part 1 – Addressing resources using URI path segments

September 21, 2007 Sep 21, 2007 09/21/07

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Deciding on something that becomes a public interface of a developer-oriented technology is a tricky task. Not only does the resulting design need to be correct and complete, but also there are various aspects that are more around aesthetics and personal preference. The URI format used by Astoria will need to survive both sets of challenges...

Astoria Design: payload formats

September 10, 2007 Sep 10, 2007 09/10/07

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The goal of Astoria is to make data available to loosely coupled systems for querying and manipulation. In order to do that we need to use protocols that define the interaction model between the producer and the consumer of that data, and of course we have to serialize the data in some form that all the involved parties understand. So ...

Transparency in the design process

July 20, 2007 Jul 20, 2007 07/20/07

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We have been looking at various options to ensure that the design of Astoria truly reflects the requirements of the day to day challenges that our developer community faces when building real-world web applications and services. We would like to start by being as transparent as possible in the design process. I wanted to briefly describe how ...

Welcome!

July 18, 2007 Jul 18, 2007 07/18/07

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Welcome to the Project Astoria Team Blog! The Astoria team (part of the “Data Programmability” (DP) team within the SQL Server organization at Microsoft) is responsible for analyzing how current and next generation internet enabled applications use data on the web and to build solutions to facilitate such usage patterns. For ...

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