Monthly Archives: April 2007

ADO.NET team shows off two new incubator projects at MIX

Data Access

I was wondering what “data services in the cloud” … Pablo Castro’s Mix Session, was going to be about.

Project Astoria exposes data that is exposed through the Entity Framework. So you build your EDM and then the service sits on top of htat.

It is two way… you can use HTTP PUT, POST and DELETE.

Here is a post on the ADO.NET team blog about the project Astoria, that is the web data services.

I’m in Pablo’s talk right now, but you can check out the project here  and the blog post here.

The second one is called Jasper which is for purely data driven apps. I’m looking forward to Sam Druker’s talk on this on Wednesday. Read the blog post here.

Get the NEW Silverlight NOW (Go Live License)

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ScottGu describes SilverLight as three parts.

We’ve seen the media capabilities of silverlight. That’s the first chunk of it.

The second is the .NET capabilites of the run time … from ScottGu’s lips “a cross platform runtime of the .NEt Framework”.

(IT IS ON THE WEB RIGHT NOW as Silverlight 1.1 Alpha!!!! Note that the Silverlight 1.0 Beta is also released today. 1.0 does not have the .NET run time but it does have a goLive license.)

The third is a new service called silverlight Streaming. You can push your silverlight assets (media etc. up to 4GB) onto a Microsoft server and it will push it out to your websites for you so you don’t have to worry about server capabilities or getting slash-dotted. 😉 (This of course will scare people… about putting their code on Microsoft’s servers… but that’s another story..)

Silverlight will be a first class .NET tool

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Right now Silverlight (wpf/e) is not for the feint of heart – lots of javascript coding involved.

But Ray Ozzie just announced (as I’m sitting here in the keynote) at MIX that Silverlight will support .NET as a first class .NET development environment. So you can develop silverlight apps in .NEt. This means that the silverlight  runtime will include .NEt. And since sliverlight is targetted at macs also this means that .NET will run on Macs. I’m assuming that this will be a subset of .NET, but ….. pretty cool.

An important post from Microsoft about Entity Framework

Data Access

Mike Pizzo writes a post about Microsoft’s data access strategy that covers a few important things:

1) Announces that EF will not make it into the Orcas release but will ship “A few months after the shipment of Orcas, and within the first half of 2008”. This plan will allow them to give us more than what they would be able to give us in the initial Orcas release.
2) Addresses the LINQ to SQL vs. Entity Framework question, which has been asked quite a lot.

READ MORE HERE

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