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How ADO.NET Data Services came to be (formerly known as Project Astoria)

Pablo Castro has recounted some of his timelined memories about how "Project Astoria" evolved from a lunch time conversation to bits in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 now known as ADO.NET Data Services Framework ). Nice write up. Three memories of my own to add to the story: 1. I was reading...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-20-2008
Astoria at MIX08 (REST in Vegas)

As much as I'd love to make it to MIX08 this week, time will not allow me...But if I were, then I'd be going to the following three sessions related to the Project Formerly Known as Astoria : Wed, March 5th - RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework Fri, March 7th - Accessing Windows...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-04-2008
Podcast with John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com

A couple of weeks back John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com joined me and Ted for a chat to discuss the state of web APIs and the API trends as he sees them. We've now recorded the conversation and published as the first of a newly launched Bungee Line podcast series. Topic covered include Facebook APIs...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-19-2007
Astoria: Data Services for the Web - Part 2

Back in April, the Data Programmability team at Microsoft announced "Astoria": Data Services for the Web , an incubation project exploring programming models for data over the web. As part of the announcement, the team deployed an online implementation of Astoria here , providing some sample read-only...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-03-2007
Ozzie's "Cloud OS" Raises More Questions than Answers

Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year since Ozzie took over the role as Chief Software...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-27-2007
RESTpectful comparison of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data APIs

Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming models of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data API for querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services). Both these APIs also happen to support operations for changing the data - inserting, updating, and deleting - Google...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-13-2007
Mashup design patterns

<warning: the following post meanders , is unstrucutured and doesn't arrive at any conclusion> In the middle of last year, I invited Dion to meet with me and other members of Microsoft's Data Programmability team to discuss REST in the context of data access over the web. Dion's perspective is...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-22-2007
Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web

Pablo Castro has announced a very cool project , Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web. So, if: You build data-aware web applications (are there web devs that don't?) You are interested in data access over the web (data over the web is what makes the web interesting) You have been asking...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-30-2007

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