ADO.NET Data Services in.NET 3.5 SP1 Beta1
I started working on an example using the
ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria)
in .NET 3.5 SP!. ADO.NET Data Services uses the Entity
Framework to expose data to clients in a restful manner.
Its ideally suited to data access over ajax clients. For
some reason, my sample wouldn't completely run. I could
query and delete, but no inserty or updatey action would
work. The error messages I got were crap merely saying that
the operation failed. What good are those messages? I
posted some messages and I decided to contact
Pablo Castro
about the issue. Pablo was his usual helpful self. He gave
me a bunch of suggestions. I went through them and it
looked like I needed to have the VJ# redistributable
installed. I then mucked up my VPC session. I went back
and started from the beginning with a fresh VPC. I
installed VJ# redistributable, .NET 3.5 SP1 beta1, Sql
Express Management Studio, and voila, I got meaningful error
messages finally. With the meaningful error messages, it
was cake to fix the updatey problem. The inserty problem
magically resolved itself. All was right with the world.
Expect a video podcast on this topic shortly along with
source code examples and things that tripped me up in the
process..