Last week the Interop guys at Microsoft released yet another piece of their PHP interop goodness, a toolkit for PHP developers hitting ADO.NET Data Services . It just happened that I had *just* set up a service for a client who was consuming it with a PHP application. I pointed him to the new toolkit...

Yesterday I blogged that my client is writing a PHP app that hits an Astoria service that I built for them. He’s using curl-lib to help him along. Today Microsoft announced that they have a PHP toolkit specifically for interacting with ADO.NET Data Services. A new bridge for PHP developers to ...

I've been asked this question enough times that I thought I would blog it. While it may seem obvious to some, it is not to everyone who is just starting out with Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL or ADO.NET Data Services. When you write a query against an Entity Data Model or a LINQ to SQL model that query...

Mike has posted a bunch of ADO.NET Data Services videos up on Channel 9. Even though I haven't had a chance to check them out yet, it's easy to presume that these are going to be as great as all of his other screencasts. http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/UK He says there are more to come. Enjoy....

The SP1 Beta does not include updated documentation for Visual Studio 2008, but it is all online. You can start here: http://vs2008sp1docs.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx A direct link to EF documentation is: Entity Framework The tools documentation is not contained within there. Instead it is...

The Astoria Team has provided a very impressive list of what's changed and what's new in the new bits for Astoria that were released with VS2008 SP1 today. I was surprised to see they already have the Batching and Optimistic Concurrency stuff in there that they were only just recently considering. Here...

This bit me in the butt ... TWICE! When using WebDataGen so that you can get a proxy class for an Astoria data service, if you are running under UAC, the output file will NOT get created, however the tool reports that the file was created successfully. I spent a lot of time trying to find the file or...

I was experimenting with creating data services from IQueryables. Rather than use the canonical example of creating a set of 3 person objects on the fly and exposing them, I decided to create a service for my application log. (Not something I plan to expose to the web, just a learning tool ;-)). I created...

I've been fiddling some more with mashing up ADO.NET Data Services using popfly. I started a few months ago then set it aside. Today, I extended my mashup block which serves up data from Northwind using an ADO.NET Data Service, then hooked it up to a geocoder block to transform city/country to lat/long...

This is a little test popfly mashup that I created from an Astoria data service. You can read the blog post about how I created the data source component here....

I thought that this was worth highlighting. ADO.NET Data Services has a newer moniker: ADO.NET Data Services Framework While I still prefer "Astoria", adding "framework" now encompasses the fact that there are client APIs as well, not just the services....

Confession: I had never heard of Microsoft Master Data Management before seeing Jamie Thompson's blogpost, MDM -> Entity Framework -> ADO.Net Data Services. Better together? . MDM is a BI tool created by a company called Stratature, which Microsoft acquired in June. Jamie writes more about that...

Andy Conrad shares with us another preview of what's coming at MIX08 . Windows Live Services will now have AtomPub payloads. These will match the ADO.NET Data Services payload format and therefore you will be able to use the various client libraries for ADO.NET Data Services (.NET, ASP.NET AJAX nad Silverlight...

A while back, Pablo Castro had created a PopFly block from an Astoria service. It no longer seems to work, presumably because he created it with the preview bits, not the CTP bits. I want to use a Popfly example in my upcoming DevConnections session Web Mashups with ADO.NET Data Services , so I decided...

Jonathan Carter was very interested in Entity Framework and Astoria. Last month, he started working for Microsoft as an Technical Evangelist . So he gets paid to share his excitement about these and other .NET technologies. Guy Burstein was very interested in Entity Framewrok and Astoria writing lots...

I wrote a series of Astoria posts based on the preview and have been thinking about updating them for ADO.NET Data Services, but it seems that it would be pretty redundant considering that we have three great resources already doing the same: Mike Taulty has two posts now in a series: ADO.NET Data Services...

One of the changes with the new CTP release of ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria) is that you can create a service against any iQueryable, not just Entity Framework. This is huge. Roger Jennings points to Guy Burstein's how-to with Astoria (I guess it's time to update my own now outdated posts...

Finally it's real live production bits to play with!! In addition to finally using real bits, key to this release are the finalization of response formats (XML by way of ATOM and JSON), security, an AJAX client, querying with LINQ when you are using one of the clients. THere's a lot more. Mike Flasko...

Mike Flasko presented on Astoria this afternoon as part of the Data Access track at DevConnections . Being the PM on the Astoria team, Mike's not stuck with the prototype bits like the rest of us slackers and was using production bits of what Astoria will really look like. Here's a few new things: 1...

The MSDN Events Tour for Q4 runs from Oct 16 - Dec 31 and hits 51 cities (including Burlington, VT!). One of the sessions is about Astoria* and it is called "A New Paradigm for Data Development with Web Based Data Services". Astoria sits on top of Entity Framework, and the session will also give a brief...

I learned a harsh lesson about Visual Studio and saving code snippets in the toolbox yesterday. Knowing that I am not great at coding Entity SQL on the fly, I stuck my code for custom operations in an Astoria Web data service into the VS2008 toolbox. I had two instances of VS open when I did this, so...

As we plug away on the prototype, the Astoria team is building brand new code for the real product and right now they are trying to finalize the URI query syntax and looking for your input. Read more.... [A New DevLife post]...

I don't like not knowing how something works, so I just had to dig further into how Astoria services see requests for queries versus Updates, Deletes and Inserts. In my previous post , I dug into the assembly with reflector and could see that a PUT was used for updates, DELETE for deletes and POST for...

I got bored with querying Astoria in the browser and and wanted to see how to use it in an application, so I opened up the sample console app that comes with the bits and started poking around and was astonished at what I saw. You can create an new WebDataContext based on the Astoria data service. WebDataContext...

I find it helpful to use the browser to visualize immediate cause and effect of queries to an Astoria web data service. THere's so much more that you can do when you are really using this in applications, though. In the documentation there's a list of query operators: callback (specific to JSON for AJAX...

Here's a quick start for checking out astoria. See my blog post " what the heck is astoria " if necessary. :-) Requirements: VS2008 Beta 2 Entity Framework Beta 2 Entity Framework Tools August CTP Astoria CTP September refresh (which works with VS2008 Beta 2) Note that I had to do this in XP. I'm having...

I'll be doing a session on Astoria at REMIX Boston 07 (10/8-10/9) and at the New England Code Camp (9/29-9/30). What is Astoria? Astoria exposes data as web services through an Entity Framework Data Model. Once exposed, you can use URI based syntax to query data through the conceptual layer of the entity...

Just a quick pointer to Pablo Castro's announcement that a new CTP for Astoria is out that will work with vS2008 Beta2. An important note, this is a refresh of the CTP, which is based on the early prototype. The actual production code that they are working on is a totally different set of bits. Hmm,...

Astoria, the data service project (think web services that expose data) based on Entity Framework, which was introduced at MIX07, has moved from the incubator to being a full fledged product with a team and a blog. READ MORE. [A New DevLife post]...

Astoria, one of the two data access projects announced at MIX07 now has it's own Program Manager, Mike Flasko , and it's own blog . Astoria is something to pay attention to. And congrats to Mike on his very recent wedding bells! He's a lucky guy! :-)...