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Earlier this day I wrote about the release of ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview release . The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a new release that provides new functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. This release delivers a set of new features that target: Enabling High Productivity Data Scenarios - including MVC, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and dynamic data Supporting Test Driven Development - including a powerful and extensible MVC framework Creating the best server...
PhaniRajuYN posted a very interesting post about Astoria DataSource Extender. (You can read my Getting Started With Astoria post to get more details about Astoria). The main issue is that it's a "Database in the cloud", which means that your database is hosted on the Web. PhaniRajuYN Extender helps one retrieve data and post data to a database on Astoria using JavaScript. The Extender encapsulates its own Server-Side handler so that you don't have to write a Server-Side proxy to...
Few weeks ago, the CTP refresh for VS 2008 Beta 2 of Astoria was released . Astoria is a really cool project based on .NET 3.0 (WFC), Entity Framework to provide pure HTTP access to SQL Server data.In order to play with it, first of all you need to install the following: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 . Entity Framework Beta 2. Entity Framework Tools CTP . Astoria September 2007 CTP . After installing all we need, we can create out first project - this post will describe the steps you need in order to...
The Astoria team has just released a refresh of the Astoria Prototype CTP to work with Visual Studio Beta 2 and the Entity Framework Beta 2. The goal of Microsoft Codename Astoria is to enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within a corporate network and across the internet. The data service is reachable over HTTP, and URIs are used to identify the various pieces of information available through the service. Interactions with the data service happens...