Archive for the ‘Astoria’ Category

Installing Microsoft Codename "Astoria"

Since I’m going to take a further look at the Astoria project I’ve installed the necessary pieces to get started. Here I will give a brief overview on what to install. The pre-requisites are: – Visual Studio .Net Codename “Orcas” beta 1 Standard, Professional or Team Suite edition. note: The Visual Web Developer Express Codename [...]

Astoria video

On the Mix 07 website you can download the session that introduced the Astoria project. It was presented by Pablo Castro. The nice thing is that you can view as a Silverlight plugin, download the WMV or if you have a Zune download on there. & wmv & zune Silverlight video Print PDF

New technology to play with

I was reading through my feeds when I found a post of Bart De Smet that summed up some of the newly announced “stuff” at Mix 07 . One announcement in particular caught my eye it was the project codenamed Astoria . Astoria is a technology that will expose a data store through an ADO.NET [...]