ADO.NET Data Services aka Project "Astoria" December CTP is released. Mike Flasko (PM @ Astora team) posted some key points:
The following features are in this CTP:
- Support to create ADO.NET Data Services backed by:
- A relational database by leveraging the Entity Framework.
- Any data source (file, web service, custom store, application logic layer, etc)
Serialization Formats: - Industry standard AtomPub serialization
- JSON serialization
Business Logic & Validation - Insert custom business/validation logic into the Request/response processing pipeline
- simple infrastructure to build custom access policy
Access Control - Easily control the resources viewable from a data service
Simple HTTP interface - Any platform with an HTTP stack can easily consume a data service
- Designed to leverage HTTP semantics and infrastructure already deployed at large
Client libraries: - .NET Framework
- ASP.NET AJAX
- Silverlight (coming soon)
For more information see ADO.NET Data Services official site.