ADO.NET
DataServices World 2008 Presentation Explores ADO.NET Data Services
At the DataServices World conference in New York City. Microsoft's Principal Architect for Data Programmability, Michael Pizzo, was one of the instructors for the Data Services Workshop. He also presented LINQ, Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services.
Microsoft Updates Visual Studio and .NET Data Access Capabilities
Microsoft has released a beta version of Visual Studio 2008 and a service pack update to the .NET 3.5 framework. SP1 for .NET 3.5 introduces new data access capabilities, ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Entity Framework, that support the database development cycle beginning with development of the conceptual model. ADO.NET Data Services enable applications to expose data as a REST-based data service that can be consumed by Web clients within a corporate network and across the Internet.
The updates support Dynamic Data, an ASP.NET feature that enables a developer to build a web site using LING to SQL or using an Entity Framework data model. Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, wrote "With the ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature you can automatically build web UI (with full CRUD - create, read, update, delete - support) against a variety of data object models (including LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities, REST Services, and any other ORM or object model with a dynamic data provider)."
ADO.NET Presentations at MIX 2008
The MIX 2008 conference included presentations with a focus on data services. Pablo Castro presented "RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework". The topic of a presentation by Nigel Ellis was "Introducing SQL Server Data Services".
