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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

PHP developers get a new bridge to .Net

Microsoft's Interoperability Strategy Team released on August 21 an open-source tookit for PHP developers who want to use Microsoft's ADO.Net Data Services (codename "Astoria"). by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Developer, PHP, Microsoft Corp., Scripting Languages, .Net, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Microsoft Oslo shifting to the data side

Last year, I heard Brian Loesgen compared Oslo, Microsoft's modeling strategy, to an onion, with many layers of features. Lately, it appears there is another layer to Oslo forming, which ties the platform closer to Microsoft's data programmability stack. Darryl Taft reveals that Microsoft has been shifting...

Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Darryl Taft, Research & Development, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-18

News to know: Firefox, Palm, AT&T, Sprint, Facebook friends

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 "done," Firefox 3.5 beta 4 due April 14 Sam Diaz: Palm to SEC:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sprint Communications, Sam Diaz, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Mice, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Peripherals

Blog posts 2009-03-11

Microsoft takes 'Astoria' service offline with early test build

Microsoft is readying new updates of some of its back-end data services of interest to developers, including an offline version of its "Astoria" ADO.Net Service. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Data Service, Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Columbia Memorial Hospital Finds Relief for Growing Pains in HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System

Columbia Memorial Hospital serves the scenic community of Astoria on the northwestern tip of Oregon, bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west and the mighty Columbia River to the north. The Hospital wanted to accommodate rapid organization growth and accompanying expansion of storage and demands on staff time by...

Tags: Hospital, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Backup System, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Backups, Utility Computing, Operational Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2008-12-01

MSDN Webcast: Southern Fried Road Show Presents REST With ADO.NET Data Services (Level 200)

The presenter of this webcast examines how to use the new ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code-named Astoria) to expose specific data stores as RESTful services. The presenter explains how to map resource requests to the data model and HTTP verbs to data operations.

Tags: Data Service, Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft ADO.NET, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-10-23

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: REST and Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 With Adnan Masood (Level 200)

The geekSpeak webcast series brings the industry experts in a "Talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. The presenter of this webcast introduces the Representational State Transfer REST architectural style and its design principles, and he discusses how they can be implemented using Windows Communication Foundation WCF 3.5. The...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsoft Corp.

Webcasts 2008-09-03

Mobility, Contact Center, and Enterprise Solutions Work Hand-in-Hand to Ensure Top-Notch Customer Service and Internal Communications at Astoria Federal Savings and Loan

Putting people first" is a serious commitment at Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association, the largest thrift depository headquartered in New York. With an Avaya enterprise telecommunications solution and an Avaya contact center solution already in place, the management team wanted to add secure, effective mobility options so that its...

Tags: Mobility, Contact Center, Avaya Inc., Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-09-01

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

Oregon Coast Hotels Search 1.2 (Mac)

OregonCoastal.com presents a widget that can book hotels, car rentals, air and hotel packages even cruises from this widget. Compare rates and save on hotels all along the coast from OregonCoastal.com. You can even download more Apple Dashboard widgets, screensavers and wallpapers from original coast photos. The coast is calling,...

Tags: Coast, Hotel, Apple Macintosh, Travel Widgets, OregonCoastal.com

Software downloads 2008-01-29

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