Ann DeMarle is the director of the Emergent Media Center at Champlain College in Vermont. She has started blogging at http://emergentmediacenter.blogspot.com and I look forward to her great insights!
I was honored to be invited by Ann to participate in a Degree Advisory Council for this program.
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 published 4 blog posts on the Astoria Team weblog yesterday:
ADO.NET Data Services (“Project Astoria”) CTP is Released
Viewing Data Services Responses Using Atom Serialization in Internet ExplorerADO.NET Data Services Dec2007 CTP – Validation and Access Control