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Building an Occasionally Connected ADO.Net Data Service with “Astoria Offline” Preview This is a step by step walkthrough of creating a new ADO.Net Data Service that support offline and synchronization with the recently released “Astoria Offline” alpha preview. 1. Create an ADO.Net Data Service that Allows Synchronization Create a new standard Web Application project. Add a new Entity Data Model. This time, make sure you select the [Offline Preview] ADO.Net Data Model template. Also notice that the...
Download PDC 2008 Sessions and Watch Offline personally prefer watching sessions regardless of my Internet connection status, so I decided to download PDC08 sessions and watch offline . I collected the list of available sessions from PDC 08 , and they are easy to download. I personally use Free Download Manager for simultaneous efficient downloads - you can try it yourself. Just select all the text in this post, right click and select “Download Selected with Free Download Manager”. For a full list...
VS 2008 SP1: Add Reference to ADO.Net Data Service Not a log time ago, when Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta was released, I updated my ADO.Net Data Services series to the SP1 bits. In my post Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Querying an ADO.Net Data Service via .Net Client I showed how to use datasvcutil.exe to generate the client side classes in order to consume the data service. In SP1 of Visual Studio 2008 , things are a bit easier, with the Add Service Reference improvements that now supports ADO.Net Data...
Training Kit for VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 The ASP.Net 3. 5 Enhancement Training Kit was updated to VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and is available for download. This kit contains presentations, demos and labs for getting started with the new technologies that shipped as part of the service pack. Download here . Enjoy!
.Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are Available! Read the announcement . Unlike other Service Packs from Microsoft, the SP1 of . Net Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 not only contains bug fixes and improvements, it also contains new technologies such as ADO.Net Entity Framework v1, ADO.Net Data Services v1, ASP.Net Dynamic Data and the framework and tools support for working with SQL Server 2008 that was RTM'ed last week . Here are some useful download links: VS 2008 Service...
This post was made as part of writing my post: How To: Host Your Screencasts on Silverlight Streaming . Download the video Enjoy!
Visual Studio SP1: EntityDataSource - Overview Screencast I have just posted an overview screencast about EntityDataSource to channel9. The EntityDataSource is the new ASP.Net Data Source that ships as part of the ADO.Net Entity Framework in Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5. In this video you will get a quick overview of the EntityDataSource and see some additional features you may want to explore later. If you want a step by step walkthrough of using the EntityDataSource...
Visual Studio 2008 SP1: EntityDataSource for ASP.Net EntityDataSource is a new DataSource control for ASP.Net (just like ObjectDataSource and SQLDataSource and more recent - LinqDataSource) which makes declaratively binding ASP.NET UI controls to Entity Data Models very easy. In this post I will build a simple web application that uses EntityDataSource in order to demo how it is being used. 1. Create a simple Web Application, and create an initial GridView on it. < body > < form id ="form1"...
Download and Install Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta(KB945140) Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta was announced today after being kept as a secret for some time. Here is the list of available downloads as part of this release: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1 Beta - Full Installation Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1 Beta - Web Installation Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile (Beta) Microsoft...
.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit is available for Download The Developer and Platform Evangelism Group in Microsoft has created a new training kit for all the enhancements for the .Net Framework 3.5 : ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Dynamic Data ASP.NET AJAX History ASP.NET Silverlight controls ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Entity Framework Download the training kit (34.9 MB) Enjoy!
DEV353: Data Access in Visual Studio 2008 - Slide Decks and Demos Earlier this week I presented at Tech Ed Israel 2008 . My session title was What's new around Data Access in Visual Studio 2008 , and I talked about the following topics: DataSets Enhancements in Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 ( watch the screencast ) Adding a Service Reference to a service with DataSets as part of its operations signature The ability to separate between the DataSets project and the TableAdapters Project...
SQL Compact Edition Support for ADO.Net Entity Framework The beta of SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 SP1 for ADO.Net Entity Framework was just released. This release works with the December 2007 Beta 3 of the ADO.Net Entity Framework . Download here .
ADO.Net Data Services Feedback: DataContextServiceProvider Required for LINQ to SQL support After writing my previous posts about ADO.Net Data Services : ADO.Net Data Services Part 1 - Building a Simple Web Data Service ADO.Net Data Services Part 2 - Using Service Operations with WebGet ADO.Net Data Services Part 3 - Querying a Web Data Service and WebDataGen.exe I took a little time to write some logic that manipulates data on the client side and applies the changes back to the service. Starting...
ADO.Net Entity Framework Tools: Stored Procedures The new ADO .Net Entity Framework Tools CTP contains improvements that allows us to map entities to Stored Procedures in the designer , and create Function Imports . In this post, I show how to do that with the designer. Creating the Initial Entity Data Model Create a new project, and add a new Entity Data Model (EDM) for your data store. In this sample I am using the BlogSchema that I've used in previous posts, so I named my model BlogModel.edmx...
ADO.Net Data Services Part 2 - Using Service Operations with WebGet This post is part of a series of posts about ADO.Net Data Services , a part of the ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions. In ADO.Net Data Services Part 1 - Building a Simple Web Data Service I had a step by step guide for building a simple web data service, that exposed resources as IQueryable properties of the DataContext . I this post, I will add some Service Operations to the Data Service. 1. Open the Blog Data Service fService Operations rom...
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