Blogs - Andrew Conrad


Astoria Design Walkthrough: Alpha preview of Project Codename "Astoria Offline" coming soon[MP4] [0:02:43] [2008/10/30]
Pablo and one of our hot shot developers Waseem Basheer sit down for a brief discussion about a new Project Astoria incubation project that we have spun up for adding sync and offline support to…


Astoria Design Walkthrough: Introducing $count as an URI query option[MP4] [0:02:33] [2008/10/25]
Mike Flasko, ADO.NET Data Services PM, discusses some design work we have been doing around providing support for our #1 customer ask, the ability to ask for the count via the ADO.NET Data Services…


Astoria Design Walkthrough: No design... just plugging our PDC talks![MP4] [0:02:21] [2008/10/25]
In our latest installment of the Astoria Design Walkthroughs there is no design, just plugs for the ADO.NET Data Services PDC talks. Both Mike and Pablo are excellent speakers, so if you are…


Astoria Design Walkthrough: Thinking of a future with sync & offline[MP4] [0:11:27] [2008/10/22]
In the latest of the Astoria Design walkthroughs, Pablo Castro, ADO.NET Data Service architect, discusses the vision of introducing sync & offline capabilities into ADO.NET Data Services. For…


Astoria Design Walkthrough: Friendly Feeds Part 1[MP4] [0:04:58] [2008/09/27]
For V1 of ADO.NET Data Services (aka Project Astoria) we introduced a process we called Transparent Design. The point of this was to make sure we got the design of our features out to users…