Today, the ADO.NET team announced the release of the long awaited Entity Framework Beta 2 and the NEW Entity Framework Tools CTP1. More information about both releases, and the features that have been included and/or improved for this release, is available on the ADO.NET Team Blog ......
Today is a big day! Last May at Mix07, we announced Project Codename "Astoria", a project designed to "enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within corporate networks and across the Internet". Alongside Project Astoria, we also announced an experimental read only online service providing "RESTful" or "Astoria" access to a few sets of data including Northwind and AdventureWorks. Today we announce the ability to create your own hosted Astoria Data ......