Man vs Codeinvaluable minutiae191 Miles to Astoria- September 12, 2007 A couple of months ago I became Development Lead for Project Astoria.&xA0;&xA0; The goal of Project Astoria is to provide a data services for the web. AKA Project Astoria provides a RESTFUL head for any sort of "queryable" data, for example data stored in relational databases.&xA0; It also contains a OR style client library (usable via a standard .Net or Silverlight client) with Linq support for accessing the Astoria Data Services.&xA0; For a much more in depth description of the...http://blogs.msdn.com/aconrad/archive/2007/09/11/191-miles-to-astoria.aspx Project Jasper sample- September 11, 2007 Tok Wee Hyong of the .Net Singapore user group has put together a nice Project Jasper sample available here if anyone is interested.http://blogs.msdn.com/aconrad/archive/2007/09/10/project-jasper-sample.aspx Science Project- September 8, 2007 In the original Linq CTP and the first Orcas Beta, we included a DataSet specific Linq operator called CopyToDataTable<T> (It was called ToDataTable at one point also).&160; For Beta 2 of Orcas, we ended up restricting this method to only work with DataRows (or some derived type) via a generic constraint on the method.&160; The reason for this was simply resource constraints.&160; When we started to design how the real version of CopyToDataTable<T> should work, we realized that...http://blogs.msdn.com/aconrad/archive/2007/09/07/science-project.aspx |