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December 2007 - Posts

ADO.NET Data Services are not tied to databases
Just to make this point very clear:ADO.NET Data Services (aka 'Astoria') is not tied to a database, not tied to relational data and surely not tied to the ADO.NET Entity Framework. *Data* in 'Data Service' doesn’t mean 'Database', but it literally just Read More
posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:45 AM with 1 Comments

Ready to rumble: Windows Server 2008 RC1 & Hyper-V on my Dell PowerEdge 2900
Alright... let the games begin. Yes: I need more RAM! Read More
posted Friday, December 14, 2007 3:33 PM with 0 Comments

Rich on Volta's tier splitting: Halleluja!
Usually, I do not post just "+1"... but this time - and I have been fighting with myself not to rant too much about Volta - I am 100% with Rich.I just think there is too much "Oh, that is easy: just one attribute and a switch and I'm done"-mantra in there...Well, Read More
posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:28 PM with 1 Comments

ADO.NET Data Services ("Astoria") InstanceContextMode
Quick note:Astoria services are PerCall by default. A data service derives from WebDataService<T> which looks like this:[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode=InstanceContextMode.PerCall)][AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode=AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]public Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:36 PM with 0 Comments

ADO.NET Data Services ("Astoria") Service Metadata
You can access the SSDL (ADO.NET Entity Framework's store schema definition language, and *not* this one here) of your Astoria Data Service by appending $metadata to the base URL, like this:http://localhost:7777/Services/Data/NW/$metadata This Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:05 PM with 2 Comments

LINQ-to-REST
The latest Astoria / ADO.NET Data Services CTP also includes a client-side library with support for creating LINQ queries against a REST API - very interesting.Details can be found here. Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:34 PM with 2 Comments

Self-Hosting Your ADO.NET Data Services ("Astoria") Services
The official ADO.NET Data Services (hm, am I the only who thinks that this - again - is not a perfect name...?) documentation doesn't alk about and doesn't show how to self-host your Astoria services - the samples and quickstarts always use ASP.NET/IIS Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:24 PM with 10 Comments

Mapping types in a WF workflow: the MapperActivity
Rich, Jörg and myself had a lot fun building this baby: being able to have an activity to graphically map source and destination objects and properties and not having to resort to a CodeActivity. A little bit like the Biztalk Server mapping editor in Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:23 AM with 0 Comments

Dealing with OS privilege 'issues' in WCF Named Pipes scenarios
For whom this ever may be useful - I fighted a long time against this... (and got support from the WCF team, BTW)We have this very vast .NET 3.x end-to-end sample application which covers nearly all of the (senseful :)) features in the .NET Framework. Read More
posted Friday, December 07, 2007 11:46 AM with 0 Comments

Running WSCF 0.7 in Visual Studio 2008
Now with VS2008 being released obviously a lot of people also want to run WSCF in it.I have an updated WSCF.addin file which you need to replace the original one with (the location of the .addin file depends on your install option).Please note that this Read More
posted Friday, December 07, 2007 9:08 AM with 3 Comments

The future of WSCF (and the forums)
Some heads up wrt to WSCF - this is what I just posted over at the thinktecture forums (which have been quiet from our side for a loooong time, sorry).Hello everybody, first of all I really need to apologize the long silence in these forums here - sorry! Read More
posted Monday, December 03, 2007 9:16 AM with 0 Comments


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