I did a short session on the Open Data Protocol (OData) last week at the NxtGen User Group and I thought I’d share the slides here. There are quite a few builds/animations in that slide-deck so I’d suggest that downloading it will produce a better experience than viewing it on SlideShare.
Tantalising post from the Astoria team.
I did a talk on Data Services at DevDays, Amsterdam last week and so I had to take a rather speedy look at batching support as that had been added to the VS 2008 Sp1 bits since the previous preview. Batching is explained up here but here's just a little example of using it. If we take "hello world" style...
...and followed Christian's great advice over here to get myself hosted inside of a console application; Self-Hosting Your ADO.NET Data Services ( Astoria ) Services took about 3 minutes. Now need to figure out what the heck I can do with this framework in its revised form.