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In March of this year I published a blog entry called “MDM -> Entity Framework -> ADO.Net Data Services. Better together?” where I theorised about implementing ADO.Net Data Services (aka Astoria) as a means for exposing entities out of Microsoft’s forthcoming Master Data Management (MDM) product that is slated for release with Office 14. As ...

Congratulations are in order for my Conchango EMC Consulting Services colleagues Simon Evans and John Shaw who are soon to be first-time published authors when their book “Pro ADO.NET Data Services : Working with RESTful data” hits the virtual bookshelves (available for pre-order on Amazon).     Simon’s interest in RESTful web ...

OK, as a follow-up to my last post I've now taken the time to read the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) whitepaper and have managed to discern some interesting information. I figured I'd stick it up here for reference.   Administration Customers will be billed by account and each account will be accessed using a Windows Live ID The ...

I have blogged a little bit about ADO.Net Data Services (aka Astoria) and Microsoft MDM of late and once briefly mentioned the two in the same breath. As I have gotten to know a bit more about these two technologies I have been thinking more about how they might one day work together and I'm going to outline those thoughts in this blog. Before I ...

There's some big announcements (in my opinion anyway) from Windows Live today. Read here:   David Treadwell on New and Updated Windows Live Platform Services http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/02/27/213.aspx   The highlights are: Messenger API that enables you to build your own Messenger client Contacts API ...

I have been talking about Astoria on this blog for some time now. For those who don't know what Astoria is the 50000ft view of it is that its a technology that allows us to expose data over HTTP thus anything that talks HTTP can consume the data. HTTP in this context is the lowest-common-denominator because its simple and nearly everything can ...

Three weeks ago I wrote this blog entry that raised a question mark over why Microsoft were coming out with two seemingly contradictory RESTful APIs (Astoria and Live Data) for exposing data. I linked to this forum posting where Federico Raggi from Microsoft stated that rather than being contradictory they were actually complementary. I questioned ...

There was some news over the weekend that probably went under the radar of most of you but I think its pretty important to know about.   Microsoft released an experimental version of a hosted data service built upon their data service technology, Astoria. Basically this service provides a very easy way of hosting your data in the cloud. ...

Just 3 days after my Astoria blog entry and some more well-timed Astoria-related news has hit the shelves. Jon Udell has done a podcast interview with the main man behind Astoria, Pablo Castro (I linked to Pablo's blog in my aforementioned blog entry). Jon talks about the interview here, Pablo talks about it ...

Just lately I've been doing a bit of searching around to see what data-centric offerings, other than the ones I normally deal with, Microsoft are pulling together. The one that has most caught my eye has been Astoria. I can't remember where exactly I first heard about it but it was this blog entry by Alex Barnett that really ...