Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - Posts

ADO.NET Data Services - Using LINQ to SQL rather than LINQ to Entities

Something that's been foxing me is that I've read about ADO.NET Data Services now supporting a "provider" model such that it's no longer tied to the Entity Framework. I hadn't done this myself until today but was reading this great post and was wondering Read More

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ADO.NET Data Services - Experimenting with .NET Client Access Whilst Sniffing the HTTP Traffic.

What flows backwards and forwards between a .NET "Data Services" client and its service? I've exposed Northwind. Querying Let's do a query from a .NET client (with generated code from the webdatagen tool); NorthwindEntities en = new NorthwindEntities( Read More

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ADO.NET Data Services - Getting Started (2)

The bits for ADO.NET Data Services ("Astoria") primarily seem to live in an assembly Microsoft.Web.Data.dll (which I'm referencing from c:\program files\reference assemblies). I'd say that the key class in there is WebDataService<T> which implements Read More

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ADO.NET Data Services - Getting Started

If you want to get started with ADO.NET Data Services then I recommend the docs up here - short and sweet but they get you up and running. Read More

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