Phani Raj
Software Engineer at PlanetScale

The new Java client joins a growing family of clients for ADO.NET Data Services, which include: Ajax , Silverlight , .Net FX ,Dynamic Data, PHP . Here’s some documentation about the Java client http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.0/13-restlet/28-restlet/287-restlet.html.

Click here to download sample application  Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client library in x-domain and out of browser scenarios – II (Forms Authentication) In this blog post, we will talk about using the Silverlight Client Library against a Data Service that is secured with Asp.Net Forms Authentication In short, the whole process of authenticating against a Forms Authentication protected Data Service looks like this. Server Setup Setup Forms Authentication on the Data Service Server Enable the WCF Authentication...

Setup PHP on your windows machine Setup the PHP Toolkit Setting up the PHP samples on IIS Running the sample ADO.NET Data Services PHP Sample Applications Walkthrough Setup PHP on your windows machine The following steps show you how to setup your windows machine to host PHP applications. We will be talking about hosting the only supported ( by MS Support ) PHP CGI application on IIS . Using FastCGI to Host PHP Applications on IIS 7.0 If you don’t...

The first in my two part blog posts about the new Silverlight Client Library we released in CTP2 is up on the team blog. Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client in x-domain and out of browser scenarios – I Stay tuned to the team blog for the the second  part which talks about using the client library X-Domain and Out Of Browserto access a data service which is authenticated with Forms Authentication.

Announcement on the team blog : http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2009/08/31/ado-net-data-services-v1-5-ctp2-now-available-for-download.aspx Download the bits here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a71060eb-454e-4475-81a6-e9552b1034fc&displaylang=en I’ve also updated my blog posts about using the Friendly Feeds features here : Introducing Web Friendly Feeds aka Friendly Feeds (Updated for CTP2) ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping EDM Types – I ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping CLR Types  Look forward to more exciting blog posts on the team blog about some of the new features in our CTP2 release .

Hello all , with the recent release of ADO.NET Data v1.5 Services CTP 1 , we introduced a new feature called as “Web Friendly Feeds”. With the release of CTP2 , we have introduced support for 2 additional ATOM:Entry elements you can map to: entry:Summary entry:Updated What is this feature about ? This is what the markup for one of the the resources of Customers looks like in ADO.NET Data Services v1 . <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?> <entry xml:base=http://localhost:26503/northwind.svc/...

More details here : Announcing the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services Look forward to future posts on this blog about working with the PHP library and Astoria Services.