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- Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5
- Microsoft is making available to testers a first beta release of Service Pack SP 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5. On May 12, Microsoft made available to any/all interested parties the first beta bits for both VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework...
- Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Astoria, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- New 'Astoria' test build released; final set for mid-2008
- Microsoft made available for download on December 9 a Community Technology Preview CTP of "Astoria," the technology now officially known as ADO.Net Data Services. Pablo Castro, Technical Lead on ADO.Net, has taken to describing Astoria as "a REST interface for data." Astoria is designed to enable applications...
- Tags: Data Service, Web, Team, Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Corp., Programming, Astoria, Team Management, .Net, Development Tools, Databases, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Astoria
- A Microsoft Code Name a Day: AstoriaCan i ask you to STOP"Microsoft Code Name a Day"I'm tired of scrolling threw these headlines.nobody care, about your propaganda, this is advertising !advertising is not news to me.MS thinks they own the dictionary and you are helping them.just stop this line of articles...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Astoria, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Astoria
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Tags: Codename, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projects
- Microsoft has a lot of database pilots and projects in the works, among them Katmai, Astoria, Jasper and Volta. But how do they all fit together? Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server, explained to me this week how Microsofts growing number of data-programmability pieces will come together...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Database, SQL Server, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Astoria: Another piece of Microsoft's cloud programming model revealed
- Astoria: Another piece of Microsoft's cloud programming model revealedBeing a sales person firstDatabase modeling is not exactly a new idea but Microsoft want to sell and a fancy name on something basically simple will surely lure a few to buy their software....foley's fooeyI ahve read too many articles by mary...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Astoria, programming, developer, programming model, Database Modeling
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
Additional Resources
- MSDN Webcast: ADO.NET Data Services Overview (Part 1 of 2) (Level 100)
- This webcast illustrates how to take advantage of ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code-named Astoria) to easily and securely expose data as services over HTTP. It gives an overview of REST, the architectural style underlying ADO.NET Data Services. Then it gives a high-level demonstration of how to expose an Entity Framework...
- Tags: Data Service, Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft ADO.NET, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-06-17
- Untangling the Microsoft mesh
- "Mesh" was Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's word of the day last week at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference. Ozzie waxed prolific on "social mesh," "device mesh," "seamless mesh" and more. But what are the technological underpinnings that will allow users and developers to bring everything together...
- Tags: WinFS, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Sync Famework, Microsoft Horizon, Microsoft Windows, RSS, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB
- Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDBMap Reduce, massive paralllel?I understand I can store unlimited information, and use REST to store/retrieve that information. I suppose that the REST command will contain a SQL- or LINQ-like statement in one shape or another will be passed in the REST command.The key piece...
- Tags: Databases, Amazon SimpleDB, Microsoft Launches, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., database
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- News to know: Dell's tablet PC; SAP on VMware; Office Live Workspace; The transistor's birthday
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme. VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier? David Morgenstern: Waiting for Leopard's iSCSI support News.com: Silicon Valley celebrates...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Tablet PC, Transistor, NetSuite Inc., Microsoft Office Live, SAP AG, VMware Inc., Tablet, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- More details emerge on Microsoft's online-offline sync platform
- The biggest news out of the Microsoft TechEd Developers conference that kicked off on November 5 is the official announcement of Microsoft's offline/online sync platform. Microsoft's strategy around the platform is what's more intriguing to me than the actual platform itself. The actual Community...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Framework, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- The Future of Business Media: I'm toast; Web ad ROI
- I strolled into the Future of Business Media conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City thinking I'd get some insight on my craft. After 40 minutes, I think I'll grab a beer. I might need one. It's close enough to noon. Why the worry? Journalists are toast....
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Media, ROI, Economics, Online Advertising, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Microsoft to provide Facebook-Toolkit-like add-on for Windows Live developers
- Microsoft is planning on fielding in November a set of new tools that will support Windows Live developers. The forthcoming Windows Live toolbox kit will include add-on tools that will work with Visual Studio 2008, the Expression family of designer tools and the Express hobbyist tools. the...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Microsoft Codename Astoria - May 2007 Community Technology Preview add on (exe)
- The first CTP of Microsoft Codename Astoria shipped in May of 2007 and included a client library to facilitate access to Astoria services from applications built using the .NET Framework. This add-on extends the CTP by introducing a version of the client library that can run inside the Microsoft Silverlight...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., .Net, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-09-07
- Microsoft Codename Astoria - May 2007 Community Technology Preview (msi)
- The Microsoft Codename Astoria project is an incubation effort at Microsoft focused on exploring how various emerging World-Wide-Web technologies and concepts can be combined with the Microsoft Data Platform to provide a first-class infrastructure for building the next wave of Internet applications. The goal of Microsoft Codename Astoria is to...
- Tags: Data Service, Microsoft Corp., Internet
- Software downloads 2007-09-04
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Volta
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Tags: Codename, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Jasper
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Codename, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- News to know: 30 things about Linux; Vista's bum rap; Losing data; Deconstructing Twitter
- Notable headlines:Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: 30 things I've learned from using Linux …Ed Bott: Vista scare stories distort the real picture.Robin Harris: How data gets lost.Phil Wainewright: Spend, spend, spend for SaaS success.Sun extends UltraSparc reach.Review: Sony VAIO TP1 Living Room PC - Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83 GHz right.Ryan Naraine: Mozilla...
- Tags: Facebook, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1
- The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1SOA vs Web.2.0Today results that Web 2.0 is everything. I just read a couple of days ago Dave Pode from the NY Times another definition. Web 2.0 is for him, the customer. When I was going to college, I took...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Channel management, advertisement, Web 2.0, SOA, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1
- It's nearly the middle of 2007 already and I've had occasion to sit down and look at where Web 2.0 and SOA software models have evolved lately. Partly it's because we're now seeing some of the bigger software companies seriously embrace lightweight SOA recently, and it's also because we're...
- Tags: Ajax, Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Collective Intelligence, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Governance, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SOA, SOAP, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), WS-*
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
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