Sharing Data Contracts between clients & servers with WCF Data Services

I’ve been blogging a bit about the OData protocol put forward by Microsoft and even wrote an article about it on Code Project.  That article is supposed to be followed by others about WCF Data Services, the .NET implementation of OData, well…  stay tuned!

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Windows 8: Desktop as a Service?

In the wild country of rumours about Windows 8, there’s a new entry:  Desktop as a Service (thanks to Mary-Jo Foley for the heads-up).  Some slides have indeed leaked from the London Microsoft architectural summit in April 2010 showing Microsoft’s vision of the next step for Windows virtualization.

The virtualization of the...

Office Web App to power Facebook emails

The new Facebook mail service will use Microsoft Office Web App in order to view Microsoft Office documents.

This follows the news of Facebook using Bing to search the social network.

It’s interesting to see Microsoft positioning itself in the social networking space and the search space.  It recently abandoned the idea of powering Livre Blog by...

Entity Framework 4.0: POCO or POCO?

The Entity Framework shipping with .NET Framework 4.0 is a major improvement over .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Entity Framework, which was the first version.  The first version was a nice curiosity but had many shortfall.  For instance, it didn’t support stored procedures, the designer wasn’t flexible, the produced ad hoc queries were quite hard to read, etc. .

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Scott Gu: Silverlight is strategic for Microsoft

The Gu has spoken:  Silverlight is important and strategic for Microsoft.

A bit like I mentioned earlier this week, the main points of Microsoft strategy are that Silverlight is for rich client applications while HTML 5 is for broader reach.

An interesting point of Scott Gu is that many of...