Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/wp7odatamovies.zip

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I've said much about my opinion of Silverlight data access. Currently this is Web Services, WCF Data Services and WCF RIA Services. Let's talk about Data Services and RIA Services and how they are related:

If you've been following my blog, you should know that I am keeping a pretty close watch on ADO.NET Data Services. The team recently released a second CTP of the new version with some interesting features. This CTP has some pretty compelling additions, but I am going ot focus on one in particular.

Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/DevTeachGameSto...

Url: http://notatpdc.com/presentations/

There is a known problem with ADO.NET Data Services today that is important if you (or your server) lives in specific timezones.  The problem is associated with the way that the Silverlight Data Services Library constructs their URI for searches. 

In building my Silverlight RC example using ADO.NET Data Services for Entity Framework and NHibernate I ran into what I think is a common pattern.  I am writing an editor for XBox game data. The model for this data uses decorator tables in the database which are modeled as a common "Product" class and derived "Game", "Console" and "Accessory" classes.  In the application I am using paging to only look at fifty results at once. This works fine on both sides. 

Url: http://www.silverlightdata.com

Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/sl2_ds_example.zip

Url: http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2008/...

Url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc7942...

Url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc7942...

Url: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/08/11/vis...

UPDATE: I know the title is wrong and it should be IUpdateable but I didn't want to break any links for any RSS feeds that already had it.

Url: http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

Url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb931106.aspx

I've known Julie Lerman (or is it Julia these days ;) for a long time now.  She's an excellent resource for everything data related.  In particular she's been keeping up with the Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria) updates in .NET 3.5 and VS SP1 Beta that was just released this week.  If you are upgrading projects (like I am), she has two excellent blog posts about how to upgrade your projects:

Url: http://www.alabamacodecamp.com

Url: http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=115

Url: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx...

Url: http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/Using%20ADO.NET%2...

Url: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/...

Over the past week there have been a flurry of new projects coming out of Microsoft, mostly in the form of CTP's.  I've been downloading like crazy and will likely be discussing my experience with them in the coming week.  In case you missed any of them:

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