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Recent update: 2008-3-21

Welcome to the Microsoft Codename Jasper Forum

5974 byte By CarlPerry-Microsoft at 2008-3-7
I wanted to post a welcome message to everybody that is working with the "Jasper" CTP. In case you aren't familiar with "Jasper" go check out the download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=471bb3ac-b31a-49cd-a567-f2e286715c8f&DisplayLang=en and ...

Astoria is out for VS 2008 Beta 2 (September 2007 CTP)!! YAY!

1282 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-3-7
Ok, so perhaps I'm a little more excited than I should be... but this basically untied my twiddling thumbs for a fairly important project that I'm working on, so I finally get to move forward on it.One question I do have is this - why is it that we cannot create an IIS-hosted Astoria project? ...

Jasper using IronPython and VS 2008 August SDK

2207 byte By Dr.Gigabit at 2008-3-6
Hi all, I am using IronPython from the latest VS SDK and trying to run the sample "Querry" from Jasper CTP. First I realized that I have to add the following into app.config <assemblyBinding> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity name="System.Core" ...

LinqToWebData?

1454 byte By tseemann at 2008-3-6
Are there any plans to include LINQ support for WebData?i.e. Code Snippet NorthwindWebDataContext ctx = new NorthwindWebDataContext(...); var q = from c in ctx.Customer where c.City == "London" select c; instead of Code Snippet WebDataContext ctx = new WebDataContext(...); var ...

Jasper using IronPython and VS 2008 August SDK

2207 byte By Dr.Gigabit at 2008-3-5
Hi all, I am using IronPython from the latest VS SDK and trying to run the sample "Querry" from Jasper CTP. First I realized that I have to add the following into app.config <assemblyBinding> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity name="System.Core" ...

Astoria Data Services

122 byte By Shakky at 2008-3-5
Hi, Whether it is possible to create a data service with multiple databases and datasources? Shaki

Jasper using IronPython and VS 2008 August SDK

2207 byte By Dr.Gigabit at 2008-3-3
Hi all, I am using IronPython from the latest VS SDK and trying to run the sample "Querry" from Jasper CTP. First I realized that I have to add the following into app.config <assemblyBinding> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity name="System.Core" ...

what''s the difference between web data services vs web services

65 byte By Anonymous at 2008-3-3
what's the difference between web data services vs web services

Jasper Demo Code

625 byte By weehyong at 2008-3-1
Recently, I gave a talk at the Singapore .Net usergroup on Project Jasper. Thought I will post up the code I have created so that anyone who is interested to try out Jasper can use it. You can download it here http://community.sgdotnet.org/files/folders/jasper/entry144836.aspx Have fun! ...

THIS IS AWESOME!!!

1922 byte By MichaelD! at 2008-3-1
WOW!!! Yet once again another fantastic idea from the Microsoft camp!This is an incredibly amazing concept! I was actually just thinking the other day (based on my personal project that I'm working on) that it would be awesome to have the ability to dynamically create data models using the ...

Jasper Demo Code

625 byte By weehyong at 2008-2-28
Recently, I gave a talk at the Singapore .Net usergroup on Project Jasper. Thought I will post up the code I have created so that anyone who is interested to try out Jasper can use it. You can download it here http://community.sgdotnet.org/files/folders/jasper/entry144836.aspx Have fun! ...

ADO.NET Entity Data Model template not visible

478 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-28
Well, this was a short-lived happy day. I downloaded the September Astoria bits and I installed them and know they're working because I see "Web Data Service" as a new option when I right-click my project. When I attempt to follow the Astoria "hello world" tutorial, I see ...

AutoDataSource EntityInserted event

168 byte By weehyong at 2008-2-27
If I have a button (e.g. Save) on a ASP.Net webform, how do I cause it to use the AutoDataSource EntityInserted event when it is clicked? Thanxs.

Astoria is out for VS 2008 Beta 2 (September 2007 CTP)!! YAY!

1282 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-27
Ok, so perhaps I'm a little more excited than I should be... but this basically untied my twiddling thumbs for a fairly important project that I'm working on, so I finally get to move forward on it.One question I do have is this - why is it that we cannot create an IIS-hosted Astoria project? ...

Jasper for Orcas Beta2

348 byte By RRaghu at 2008-2-26
Will there be a new CTP that runs on Beta2? Since ADO Entity Framework for Orcas Beta2 is not released yet, will new CTP closely follow Entity Framework for beta2? The documentation says this project is only for languages that support late binding only. So this means you can not use it from ...

Question about Web3S

1155 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-26
I think I "get" the point of Web3S, it's basically a couple of guidelines for how you should interact in a RESTful, POXy manner... but what I don't get is why it ADDS complexity to something that most people tout for its ease of use and simplicity. For example, if I make a pure ...

AutoDataSource EntityInserted event

168 byte By weehyong at 2008-2-25
If I have a button (e.g. Save) on a ASP.Net webform, how do I cause it to use the AutoDataSource EntityInserted event when it is clicked? Thanxs.

Astoria on Orcas Beta 2

596 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-25
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...

AutoDataSource EntityInserted event

168 byte By weehyong at 2008-2-24
If I have a button (e.g. Save) on a ASP.Net webform, how do I cause it to use the AutoDataSource EntityInserted event when it is clicked? Thanxs.

Astoria on Orcas Beta 2

596 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-24
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...

AutoDataSource EntityInserted event

168 byte By weehyong at 2008-2-23
If I have a button (e.g. Save) on a ASP.Net webform, how do I cause it to use the AutoDataSource EntityInserted event when it is clicked? Thanxs.

What other products are considering using Astoria?

871 byte By JamieThomson at 2008-2-23
Hi, I'm interested to know whether there has been any interest from other product groups in leveraging Astoria for their own needs. There must be a multitude of products within Microsoft that have an interest in making data available as a data service. A quick brainstorm: The Office Business ...

Jasper for Orcas Beta2

388 byte By RRaghu at 2008-2-22
Will there be a new CTP that runs on Beta2? Since ADO Entity Framework for Orcas Beta2 is not released yet, will new CTP closely follow Entity Framework for beta2? The documentation says this project is only for languages that support late binding only. So this means you can not use it from ...

Great to see Web3S support

507 byte By JamieThomson at 2008-2-22
Hey guys, I read on your blog today about your intended support for Web3S as a payload format. Great news - its fantastic to see disparate product groups within MSFT combining like that. More of the same please - it would be great to see Astoria+Web3S become a "default" choice within ...

Caching generated complied code?

559 byte By MatthewHobbs at 2008-2-22
Are there any plans (if not already) to allow Jasper to cache its generated code or complied assemblies and either be configured to not recheck the database or EDM, or (if using an EDM) check the file timestamp of the EDM file (and corresponding custom classes?), or allow some custom code to ...

Astoria on Orcas Beta 2

596 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-22
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...

Partial EDM OK?

431 byte By MatthewHobbs at 2008-2-21
Regarding when to use default EDM (generated from the db) or a pre-existing EDM... is it possible to do both by telling Jasper to use a pre-existing EDM but also use a default EDM (generated) for tables not specified in the pre-existing EDM or for a manually specified list of tables? I.e. can ...

Great to see Web3S support

507 byte By JamieThomson at 2008-2-21
Hey guys, I read on your blog today about your intended support for Web3S as a payload format. Great news - its fantastic to see disparate product groups within MSFT combining like that. More of the same please - it would be great to see Astoria+Web3S become a "default" choice within ...

AutoDataSource; Error re: Building ASP.NET Applications with Jasper

4990 byte By entArchPrgmr at 2008-2-20
I am just trying to get my feet wet here and have viewed the 'pre-MIX' Ch9 'Meet the Jasper team' webcast, and my Configuration is: Windows XP sp2, Orcas Beta1 March 2007 CTP, Jasper MIX/MAY 2007 CTP, .net 3.0, .net 3.5 (Pre-release), SQL Server 2005 Express. Issue: I am trying to build ...

What other products are considering using Astoria?

871 byte By JamieThomson at 2008-2-20
Hi, I'm interested to know whether there has been any interest from other product groups in leveraging Astoria for their own needs. There must be a multitude of products within Microsoft that have an interest in making data available as a data service. A quick brainstorm: The Office Business ...

AutoDataSource; Error re: Building ASP.NET Applications with Jasper

4990 byte By entArchPrgmr at 2008-2-19
I am just trying to get my feet wet here and have viewed the 'pre-MIX' Ch9 'Meet the Jasper team' webcast, and my Configuration is: Windows XP sp2, Orcas Beta1 March 2007 CTP, Jasper MIX/MAY 2007 CTP, .net 3.0, .net 3.5 (Pre-release), SQL Server 2005 Express. Issue: I am trying to build ...

Astoria on Orcas Beta 2

596 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-19
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...

Column Names that appear in multiple tables

456 byte By JulieLerman at 2008-2-18
I remember the question about how to deal with Customers.CompanyName vs. Suppliers.CompanyName being asked in teh MIX session and believe the answer was "we'll be addressing this", I was wondering if the naming service can be used to fix this. The examples in teh CTP seem to focus ...

Astoria on Orcas Beta 2

596 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-18
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...

Jasper and IronPython in an ASP.NET Application

544 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-17
Every single demo that I've seen of Jasper has involved people using ipy to dynamically interrogate the database, which is fine. Also, the ASP.NET demos of Jasper have used VB as the code-behind language. Here's the problem: both of those scenarios that I will never use in production. I will ...

Making a call to the online service form a dektop application (.net 2.0)

1380 byte By markovuksanovic at 2008-2-17
I have tried using the following code to add a new entry to the datastore WebRequest req = null; HttpWebResponse res = null; // Initialise the web request // Get Bytes for auth string {user}:{password} ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding(); Byte[] userPassBytes = ...

Jasper and LINQ in CTP Samples

966 byte By JulieLerman at 2008-2-16
I'm looking at the VIsual Basic query samples and curious about the compile time checking in the LINQ samples. This may just be the mystery of Dynamic Languages... In this code: Code Snippet Dim customers As Object = From c In CType(context.Customers, IQuery) _ Where c.Country = ...

Where to find it ?

101 byte By OmarAbid at 2008-2-16
Hi, Interested in this Astoria where can I find more information on it ? Thanks

SupportsFiltering

186 byte By ChrDressler at 2008-2-15
Hi, If Autobinder bind your "dynamic class" to an BindingSource, this BindingSource.SupportsSorting is true, but SupportsFiltering is false. Why? -christoph

JavaScript library to access REST data services?

256 byte By viswaug at 2008-2-15
Hi, Is there a JavaScript out there that can be used to access the REST based Astoria data services. In other words, How can i download the data in JSON format from a Astoria REST data service from javascript? Thank You, Vish

Can't use any database other that Northwind?

5547 byte By JasonLepack at 2008-2-15
I'm having issues with Jasper. I'm just testing it out using VB Express Orcas. I've had lots of success using the Northwind Database but as soon as I try to use any other database I have issues. Either nothing will show up in any of the controls or I will get some sort of "schema not ...

Astoria on Orcas Beta 2

596 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-15
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...

Jasper and IronPython in an ASP.NET Application

544 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-15
Every single demo that I've seen of Jasper has involved people using ipy to dynamically interrogate the database, which is fine. Also, the ASP.NET demos of Jasper have used VB as the code-behind language. Here's the problem: both of those scenarios that I will never use in production. I will ...

Astoria on Orcas Beta 2

596 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-15
Given that Astoria is not coupled directly with Orcas - when can I get an install of Astoria for the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio Orcas ... or, better yet, can I just use the Beta 1 install on the new release? Bottom line is that Astoria represents 90% of my interest in Orcas right now, ...

Jasper and IronPython in an ASP.NET Application

544 byte By KevinHoffman at 2008-2-15
Every single demo that I've seen of Jasper has involved people using ipy to dynamically interrogate the database, which is fine. Also, the ASP.NET demos of Jasper have used VB as the code-behind language. Here's the problem: both of those scenarios that I will never use in production. I will ...

JavaScript library to access REST data services?

256 byte By viswaug at 2008-2-15
Hi, Is there a JavaScript out there that can be used to access the REST based Astoria data services. In other words, How can i download the data in JSON format from a Astoria REST data service from javascript? Thank You, Vish

Inserting a record

938 byte By newdrim at 2008-2-15
Hi! I was playing around with WinForms demo that comes with Jasper CTP. The demos use Nortwind database and there is a form that allows insertion of records into Products table (SimpleForm.vb). Since ProductID field is identity field I would like to enter only ProductName, but I can't ...

ADO.NET EDM Wizard

343 byte By LThomas999 at 2008-2-15
I have installed ORCAS beta 2 and am wokring through the creating a local data service using Visual Studio. I saw the previous message regarding ADO.Net EDM wizard not visible. I am not seeing the ADO.Net at all. Is there something else we should use to connect to a database in this example for ...

Slides and video from Mix '07 Jasper session posted

410 byte By ShyamPather at 2008-2-14
Hello all- Just wanted to let everyone know I have posted the slides and the links to the video from the Jasper session that Sam Druker and I did at Mix '07. You can find the information on my blog at: http://pather.net/shyam/ViewPost.aspx?PostId=9. Thanks -shyam ...

ADO.NET EDM Wizard

343 byte By LThomas999 at 2008-2-14
I have installed ORCAS beta 2 and am wokring through the creating a local data service using Visual Studio. I saw the previous message regarding ADO.Net EDM wizard not visible. I am not seeing the ADO.Net at all. Is there something else we should use to connect to a database in this example for ...