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I recently got accepted onto the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) beta program and have been getting to grips with the how, what and why of the service. For those that don't know SSDS is a cloud computing platform from Microsoft that allows us to store data in the cloud rather than host it on our own database servers. The data is ...

WFC is well known to be brilliant at SOAP, and fans of WCF may be aware that in version 3.5 may be aware of the cool new features. But the rest of us (the REST of us, haha, I'm so funny)  may not know that it addresses in a simple and flexible way other scenarios- that is, serving XML or JSON data off simple Urls in a REST ...

OK, as a follow-up to my last post I've now taken the time to read the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) whitepaper and have managed to discern some interesting information. I figured I'd stick it up here for reference.   Administration Customers will be billed by account and each account will be accessed using a Windows Live ID The ...

I have blogged a little bit about ADO.Net Data Services (aka Astoria) and Microsoft MDM of late and once briefly mentioned the two in the same breath. As I have gotten to know a bit more about these two technologies I have been thinking more about how they might one day work together and I'm going to outline those thoughts in this blog. Before I ...

There was some news over the weekend that probably went under the radar of most of you but I think its pretty important to know about.   Microsoft released an experimental version of a hosted data service built upon their data service technology, Astoria. Basically this service provides a very easy way of hosting your data in the cloud. ...

Just 3 days after my Astoria blog entry and some more well-timed Astoria-related news has hit the shelves. Jon Udell has done a podcast interview with the main man behind Astoria, Pablo Castro (I linked to Pablo's blog in my aforementioned blog entry). Jon talks about the interview here, Pablo talks about it ...

Just lately I've been doing a bit of searching around to see what data-centric offerings, other than the ones I normally deal with, Microsoft are pulling together. The one that has most caught my eye has been Astoria. I can't remember where exactly I first heard about it but it was this blog entry by Alex Barnett that really ...

Recently, I've been doing a fair amount of reading around RESTFul web services and applications. Ruby on Rails has made it silly easy for you to create applications that offer a REST api out of the box. When dealing with a REST web service it is vitally important you understand the verbs of the HTTP protocol. Now I'm not going to ...