Recent update: 2008-3-21
Ok, so perhaps I'm a little more excited than I should be... but this basically untied my twiddling thumbs for a fairly important project that I'm working on, so I finally get to move forward on it.One question I do have is this - why is it that we cannot create an IIS-hosted Astoria project? ...
Are there any plans to include LINQ support for WebData?i.e. Code Snippet NorthwindWebDataContext ctx = new NorthwindWebDataContext(...); var q = from c in ctx.Customer where c.City == "London" select c; instead of Code Snippet WebDataContext ctx = new WebDataContext(...); var ...
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Shakky at 2008-3-5
Hi, Whether it is possible to create a data service with multiple databases and datasources? Shaki
what's the difference between web data services vs web services
WOW!!! Yet once again another fantastic idea from the Microsoft camp!This is an incredibly amazing concept! I was actually just thinking the other day (based on my personal project that I'm working on) that it would be awesome to have the ability to dynamically create data models using the ...
Well, this was a short-lived happy day. I downloaded the September Astoria bits and I installed them and know they're working because I see "Web Data Service" as a new option when I right-click my project. When I attempt to follow the Astoria "hello world" tutorial, I see ...
Ok, so perhaps I'm a little more excited than I should be... but this basically untied my twiddling thumbs for a fairly important project that I'm working on, so I finally get to move forward on it.One question I do have is this - why is it that we cannot create an IIS-hosted Astoria project? ...
I think I "get" the point of Web3S, it's basically a couple of guidelines for how you should interact in a RESTful, POXy manner... but what I don't get is why it ADDS complexity to something that most people tout for its ease of use and simplicity. For example, if I make a pure ...
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...
Hi, I'm interested to know whether there has been any interest from other product groups in leveraging Astoria for their own needs. There must be a multitude of products within Microsoft that have an interest in making data available as a data service. A quick brainstorm: The Office Business ...
Hey guys, I read on your blog today about your intended support for Web3S as a payload format. Great news - its fantastic to see disparate product groups within MSFT combining like that. More of the same please - it would be great to see Astoria+Web3S become a "default" choice within ...
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...
Hey guys, I read on your blog today about your intended support for Web3S as a payload format. Great news - its fantastic to see disparate product groups within MSFT combining like that. More of the same please - it would be great to see Astoria+Web3S become a "default" choice within ...
Hi, I'm interested to know whether there has been any interest from other product groups in leveraging Astoria for their own needs. There must be a multitude of products within Microsoft that have an interest in making data available as a data service. A quick brainstorm: The Office Business ...
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...
I have tried using the following code to add a new entry to the datastore WebRequest req = null; HttpWebResponse res = null; // Initialise the web request // Get Bytes for auth string {user}:{password} ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding(); Byte[] userPassBytes = ...
Hi, Interested in this Astoria where can I find more information on it ? Thanks
Hi, Is there a JavaScript out there that can be used to access the REST based Astoria data services. In other words, How can i download the data in JSON format from a Astoria REST data service from javascript? Thank You, Vish
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...
Hi, Is there a JavaScript out there that can be used to access the REST based Astoria data services. In other words, How can i download the data in JSON format from a Astoria REST data service from javascript? Thank You, Vish
I have installed ORCAS beta 2 and am wokring through the creating a local data service using Visual Studio. I saw the previous message regarding ADO.Net EDM wizard not visible. I am not seeing the ADO.Net at all. Is there something else we should use to connect to a database in this example for ...
I have installed ORCAS beta 2 and am wokring through the creating a local data service using Visual Studio. I saw the previous message regarding ADO.Net EDM wizard not visible. I am not seeing the ADO.Net at all. Is there something else we should use to connect to a database in this example for ...
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...
As you may know from my interactions on here and elsewhere I'm very curious about Astoria. I primarily work on BI projects and, even more specifically, I use SQL Server Integration Services (that's how i got my MVP thingummy) for data integration. For those that don't know, SSIS is used to ...
I have tried using the following code to add a new entry to the datastore WebRequest req = null; HttpWebResponse res = null; // Initialise the web request // Get Bytes for auth string {user}:{password} ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding(); Byte[] userPassBytes = ...
I have tried using the following code to add a new entry to the datastore WebRequest req = null; HttpWebResponse res = null; // Initialise the web request // Get Bytes for auth string {user}:{password} ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding(); Byte[] userPassBytes = ...
I have installed Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 2 (Standard edition) along with the "Astoria" CTP & trying to add a local data service. The "Add New Item link" in Visual Studio does not contain a template for the Entity Data Model Wizard. This option is missing.Can ...
Hi, I am trying to think of ways in which Astoria can be used to query spatial databases. Can Astoria URL query contain parameters that can be parsed into custom objects by user functions that can then be used to query a spatial database? I.E. for example, the URL contains a series of X Ys ...
Hi all, What kind of security options are available to restrict data access in Astoria? Can Astoria be used for updating data or is it only for accessing data? Thank You, Vish
A few brainstormed questions after using Astoria for a while. The username/password for the service demo'd below is quoteit/quoteit The following 2 URIs return the same thing: ...
Hi, Ive been playing around with my experimental data service at https://astoria.sandbox.live.com/users/quotemehappy/quotemehappy.rse username=quoteit password=quoteit The service is very basic. Its a list of Persons and a list of Quotes for each of those Persons. What bothers me is that I ...
When I try to run Astoria ClientEDMgen.exe with the path to my hosted data store, the only response I get is: "Application Failed to initialize properly (0xC0000135)". What is the problem? Why does this utility not run without error? How do I run it? ...
A couple of weeks ago I had an interesting conversation with the solution architect (who happens to work for Microsoft Consulting Services by the way) on my current project trying to persuade him that Astoria was something we should be looking at heavily for our data integration needs. His ...
I am trying to use your Astoria Data Store editor to create my data store online. I can not create a New Association. My store is https://astoria.sandbox.live.com/users/Store1/Store1.rse I have 2 Entities: Schools and Teachers. I am trying to Associate Teachers to Schools using the ...
Hello,I'm very enthusiast with Astoria because it's exactly what I will need for a new project ... the only problem is that that Astoria is in beta 1 ... when will the beta 2 be released ? (approximately) ?Will the current API be keeped or the current API can change quite completely ? I plan ...
Hi guys,I can see at the moment we are getting 100MB of free space to "play" with Astoria while its in testing... Is this the kind of thing we can expect when the project is finished? Will Astoria become the gmail/hotmail/etc of databases and offer free accounts and space to all? I ...
Hi, Just a few Qs about the hosted services: How will we know how big the database is? i.e. How will we know when we're coming close to exceeding 100MB? Will we have the capability to performance tune the underlying database? At the very least I'd like to be able to create covering ...
Hi all, I'm really excited about the weekend announcement of hosted data services - who says MSFT don't innovate? I've set up a demo service here: https://astoria.sandbox.live.com/users/quotemehappy/quotemehappy.rse username: quoteit password: tietouq and I've been using ...
How can I pass in my username and password using the new sandbox tool? I tried adding them to the uri $username=xxx&$password=xxx but this does not work. Pablo this stuff looks really great, I can't wait to put it through a workout. Terrence ...
<font face="Times New Roman" size=2>By default, the requested is returned in XML. Is it possible to have Astoria return the data in a JSON format?</font> <font face="Times New Roman"></font> <font face="Times New Roman">Vish</font>
Hello thereI am considering posibility of using Astoria services with my Silverlight application. I am interested in that new 100 meg offer that's out there working together with the silverlight streaming service launched by Microsoft earlier. My question is whether I can use Astoria through ...
If you think it would be interesting to be able to define the schema of a data service and have it be created "in the cloud" and an URI handed back to you, check this out: http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2007/08/03/create-your-own-hosted-astoria-data-service.aspx Mike just ...
Are there any plans to include LINQ support for WebData? i.e. Code Snippet NorthwindWebDataContext ctx = new NorthwindWebDataContext(...); var q = from c in ctx.Customer where c.City == "London" select c; instead of Code Snippet WebDataContext ctx = new ...
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...
Hi all, I'm a .Net noob so bear with me here OK. This is how I learn I have used WebDataQuery<T> to return some data from an Astoria service. The data has been returned in XML format. Now, what exactly can I use the Count<T> method for? I know what the XML contains, its ...
Hello Is Astoria now fully (easily) supported in the latest Express Beta editions that were released in the last couple of days or should I download the standard version of Orcas? Thanks
Pablo's MIX 2007 presentation indicated that Astoria was looking at supporting RDF and he was looking for some feedback on the current RDF implementation. I was glad to see that the Astoria team was thinking about RDF since more of my projects involve using RDF with our regional offices in ...