Microsoft Codename Astoria !

Raheel Hussain — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:18:00 GMT

Hello folks !

A recommended read about Microsoft codename "Astoria", an experimental project by Microsoft.

I'm listing down some of the highlights, I was able to understand from the mannual I downloaded.

This is a very interesting read, as well as the you can make your own data store upto 100 MB and use the Astoria
service to build the data service and access it from any where on the internet, while the toolkit can also be
downloaded to be used on your system with VS & AJAX enabled.

Here are the few extracts/highlights for your ease!

Project Astoria consists of a combination of patterns, libraries and an online service that explores the concept of data services for the web.

The goal of Astoria is to facilitate the creation of flexible data services that are naturally integrated with the web.
Astoria uses URIs to point to pieces of data and simple, well-known formats to represent that data, such as JSON (Javascript Simple Object Notation) and plain XML, while the default representation is XML.

JSON format is naturally and simply integrated with Javascript environments such as AJAX, can be retreived by simply setting a Acceptheader to application/json.

Codename Astoria is released in two forms, A downloadable toolkit and an online service. Both are focused on creation and operation of data services, but are aimed at difference scenarios.

The Astoria toolkit is a downloadable package that contains the Astoria runtime, documentation and examples that show how to use the toolkit. The toolkit is designed to allow ASP.NET developers to create data services directly in their ASP.NET applications, accessing their own database.
The Astoria online service is an experimental service that aims at exploring programming models for data on the web, offered in the form of a service.

Using the Astoria online service, web developers can create custom structured data stores on the web and access them from anywhere that they have internet access, This experimental release also includes a set of sample data-sets that are preloaded and readily accessible as data services.

Please you can visit http://astoria.mslivelabs.com for further information about the project.
Also, visit the Astoria Blog at Microsft MSDN.Regards !
raheel Hussain

Raheel Hussain : Microsoft Project Codename Astoria

Microsoft Codename Astoria !