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Please refer to our Runtime
description for more details on this part of the project.
Optional packages are `libgdiplus' (if you want to do
graphics). The package `mcs' contains the C# source code to
the compilers and class libraries.
To run ASP.NET applications you need xsp and if you want to
optionally integrate with Apache, get mod_mono.
Online API documentation for Mono is available in the `monodoc' package.
Gtk-sharp is package to build GUI applications with the Gtk toolkit.

Current Stable Version: Mono 1.2.3
- Release notes Feb 6th, 2007 (http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.3).

Current Maintenance Version: Mono 1.1.13.8.1
- Mono 1.1.13.8 (Release notes June 5th, 2006 (http://go-mono.com/archive/1.1.13.8.1))
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Microsoft Codename

Getting Started 

Introduction

The goal of Microsoft Codename "Astoria" is to enable applications to expose data
as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within corporate networks
and across the internet. The data service is reachable over regular HTTP requests,
and standard HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE are used to perform operations
against the service.

The payload format for the service is controllable by the application, but all options
are simple, open formats such as plan XML and JSON. The use of web-friendly technologies
make it ideal as a data back-end for AJAX-style applications, Rich Interactive Applications
and other applications that need to operate against data that is across the web.

This document describes how to create and use Microsoft Codename Astoria data services,
and discusses various details around the URL and payload formats. For an overview
of the Project Astoria, see the “Project Astoria Overview” document. The first Astoria
CTP is a dual release making Astoria available in the form of downloadable bits
that can be used to build data services that are entirely contained within a single
computer or network, and as an experimental online service that you can use to create
online stores that are hosted by Microsoft and are accessible over the internet.

For a high-level introduction
to the Astoria project and more information on the motivations and key elements
that lead to this project, please view the Astoria Overview
document, available on the Resources tab.

Before Starting

In order to create a web data service using Microsoft Codename Astoria
in your own environment you will need
Microsoft Visual Studio Codename “Orcas” Beta 1, and a database with updated data-access providers, such
as Microsoft SQL Server 2005. In this document we will use
SQL Server Express.

NOTE: This CTP release of Astoria works best with the Standard, Professional or Team
System versions of Visual Studio Codename “Orcas”. While you can still use Visual
Studio “Orcas” Web Developer Express edition, the experience is not optimal.

If you do not have access to the pre-release packages of Microsoft Visual Studio
or Microsoft Codename Astoria, or would rather not install it, most of the examples
discussed below can be accomplished using the sample online versions of the data
service. For more information, and to begin working with the sample online versions
of the data service, see the section
“Getting Started Using the Astoria Online Service”.

Getting Started Using Astoria in
your own Environment

After installing
Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Beta 1 and SQL Server Express Edition, download and
install the Astoria
toolkit. 

This CTP release also includes pre-built samples that you can use to learn about
the technology. These samples will allow you to see how data services are consumed
using different client-side technologies such as .NET Framework clients and AJAX-style
clients.

To use the samples provided, Start Visual Studio "Orcas". If you are using a Visual
Studio Express Edition, open the SimpleWebSite sample from the Program Files\Microsoft
Codename Astoria\Samples directory. If you are using Standard, Professional or Team
System versions of Visual Studio, open the Simple NorthwindSample from the Program
Files\Microsoft Codename Astoria\Samples directory. Once the project is open, hit
Ctrl + F5 to start the development web server and launch the sample in an internet
browser.

Both samples will bring you to a similar page that will allow you to Check for,
and create if necessary, the required Northwind database. Once the database has
been found, or created, you be able to begin to explore the data that has been exposed
through the Astoria data service.  

Creating a local data service using Visual Studio

Astoria data services are
a specialized form of Windows Communication Foundation services, and they can be
hosted in various environments. For this CTP release, Astoria services always run
inside ASP.NET sites. In order to create a data service, you must first create a
web project; you will then need to establish a connection with the database that
you want to expose in the service, and then create the data service itself within
the web application. Below is a step-by-step description of this process: 

     

1. Create the project

Create a “Web Application” project,
 File -> New -> Project.

When the New Project window appears, choose either Visual Basic or Visual C# as
the programming language, and within the language category click on “Web”, and select
“ASP.NET Web Application” from the right-hand panel. Choose a name for the project,
for example SimpleDataService, and click OK.

NOTE: if you already have a web application and you’d like to add a new data service
to it, you can skip step 1 and go directly to step 2

2. Create an Entity Data Model representation of your
database

Assuming that you already have a database
that you want to expose as a data service, we will create an Entity Data Model schema
that maps 1:1 with your database.

Select SimpleDataService -> Add New Item, in Visual Studio.

When the Add New Item window appears, choose “ADO.NET Entity Data Model”, give it
a name and click Add. We will use the Northwind sample database throughout, so we
will use “Northwind” as our name (Northwind.csdl being the generated file name). 

When the Entity Data Model Wizard appears, select “Generate from Database” and click
next.

Create a new connection to the database by using the “New Connection…” button, or
use one of the available databases if you have one pre-configured, click next.

In the last window, the wizard presents the list of tables available from the database,
you can leave the default selection or specify which tables you with to make visible
through the service.

Click finish to close the wizard.

The wizard will generate files to represent the database metadata in the project.
In the rest of the step-by-step guide we will assume you are using the Northwind
example database, so the database connection created here should point to Northwind.

NOTE: if you are using SQL Server 2005, it is recommended that you create a new connection
in this dialog (e.g. for Northwind) and in the “Connection Properties” window click
on “Advanced”, locate the “MultipleActiveResultSets” option and set it to “True”.

3. Create a data service

To create the data service itself,
select SimpleDataService -> Add New Item, in Visual Studio.

Choose “Web Data Service” from the list of item templates, give it a name (e.g.
Northwind) and click add. (note that you need to select “Web Data Service”, not
other similarly-called options such as “Web Service”.) 

Visual Studio will open the code file for the new service by default. You can also
find the file in the Solution Explorer; it will have the name you indicated, with
a “.svc.cs” or “.svc.vb” extension.

Open the file, and add an “imports” (Visual Basic”) or “using” (C#) clause at the
beginning of the file to include the namespace of the data classes generated by
the wizard in step 2. You can use the Visual Studio object browser to locate the
name, or just rely on intellisense. The namespace is derived from the database that
was used for the data service, for example if the database was called Northwind
the namespace will be NorthwindModel.

Locate the “TODO:” comment that indicates where to put the class name that represents
the database, and replace it with the name of the class that was generated by the
Entity Data Model Wizard in step 2. Again, the name is derived from the database
name, so for example if the database is called “Northwind” the class will be “NorthwindEntities”.

At this point the data service is ready to use. It is setup with default access
which exposes all the contents of the database directly through the service. Before
deploying, you may want to adjust which parts of the database are visible, and of
those which ones should be read-only and which ones read-write.

NOTE: the current CTP defaults to “all access” to make
it straightforward to experiment with the technology. In the future you can expect
security-oriented defaults that don’t expose anything unless it has been explicitly
enabled

The code file (e.g. northwind.svc.cs
or northwind.svc.vb) should look more or less like Example
1 or Example 2 depending on the
programming language you are using.

using System;

using System.Web;

using System.Collections;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Data;

using System.Data.Objects;

using Microsoft.Astoria;

using NorthwindModel;

namespace SimpleDataService

{

     public class Northwind : WebDataService < northwindentities
>

    {

    }

}

Example 1

Imports System.Data.Objects

Imports Microsoft.Astoria

Imports NorthwindModel Public

Class Northwind

     Inherits WebDataService(Of NorthwindEntities)

End Class

Example 2

To test the data service, simply hit
Ctrl+F5 within Visual Studio, which will start the development web server and will
run the server inside it. See the “Trying an Astoria Data Service” section below
to walk through a trial run of your newly created data service.

Getting Started Using the Astoria Online Service

In addition to being able to create web data services using Visual Studio and deploy
them on your own systems, this CTP release is also being experimentally hosted online
by Microsoft.

For the online scenario,

you can use some of the pre-created data services that are available as part of
this CTP release. After the service has been created, the interaction with it is
the same as the interaction with a locally created service.

Trying
an Astoria Data Service

The easiest way to try an Astoria
data service is to simply access it with the browser. While this is probably not
the way you will ultimately use the data service (it is more likely that a program
will interact with it), it is an easy way to understand how requests work, what
results look like, and other details surrounding the implementation of the service.

To interact with the data service, open a web browser such as Microsoft Internet
Explorer and point it to the URL that is the entry point to the site. If you created
the data service locally using Visual Studio, you can simply hit Ctrl+F5 to start
the web server, and then point the URL in the browser that Visual Studio launches
to the data service file. For example, “http://host/vdir/northwind.svc” where “host”
is a computer name or localhost; you may also need to add a port number. To use
one of the pre-created online data services, you can click on the Astoria Online
Service page.

When you hit the entry point, by default, you will get an XML response that contains
the list of “entity-sets” (sort of tables in EDM parlance). In the Northwind example
we’ve been using so far, the output will be similar to what is shown in Example
3 below.

< DataService xml:base="http://host/vdir/northwind.svc"
>

   < NorthwindEntities uri="." >

     < Categories href="Categories" / >

     < Customers href="Customers" / >

     < Employees href="Employees" / >

     < OrderLines href="OrderLines" / >

     < Orders href="Orders" / >

     < Products href="Products" / >

     < Regions href="Regions" / >

     < Shippers href="Shippers" / >

     < Suppliers href="Suppliers" / >

     < Territories href="Territories" / >

   < /NorthwindEntities >

< /DataService >

Example 3

Using this
as a starting point, you can start to browse deeper into the contents of the data
service.

For more information and further detail
on using the Astoria toolkit and online service, please view the
Using Microsoft Codename "Astoria" document, available on the
Resources tab.

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release of a software program that bears the project code name “Astoria”.

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Unless otherwise noted, the companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail
addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted in examples herein are fictitious.
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gettingdrunkinfirstclass.com/2007/04/23/blue-skying/

I, for one, enjoy blue sky thinking sessions. My clients are frequently mystified by the activity.

Creating a flashy deck is not all that blue sky thinking is about,
of course. With my 3 months, 4 days, 5 hours, and 22 minutes of
expertise in the women’s hosiery industry, I most certainly make
diligent use of my Googling skills. After all, that’s why they call me
a management consultant. For $850 an hour, I’ll learn whatever language
you want me to learn. Give me a couple of hours and I’ll ‘figure it
out’ while at the same time excluding you from my club filled with
consultant lingo that sounds so sexy.

Blue Sky Thinking

Let’s take an example of a blue sky thinking session with one of my recent clients:

Imagine several cigar-chomping executives from my hosiery client in
a mahogany-laden conference room dropping bombs and slapping asses like
old fraternity brothers. Practicing their putting game on astroturf,
they are awaiting their highly paid, angelic consultant to walk in and
tell them what they need to do, like maybe targeting buyers in the 7-Eleven burglar stockings
market. When the angel finally arrives, there I am strolling in after 2
hours of sleep fresh off a red eye. While the executives sit in their
high-back leather chairs thinking about my Stanford MBA creds and all
the businesses that I’ve ~~destroyed~~ turned around in the past, they’re thinking they’ve ingeniously saved their asses.

I begin the session by drawing a big circle on the white board using
a brand-spanking-new blue dry erase marker. The fresh, virgin scent
permeates my nostrils and gives me a slight boner; I hide this fact by
facing my powerful audience slightly off-center until my mild hard-on
subsides.

My Blue Marker Board Circle

“The circle,” I explain to my executive audience, “represents the
company’s strategic pillars, its main imperatives, its core abilities,
its best talent.”

They nod their heads in consent, naturally. I can’t believe it! This
is going to be easier than snagging half-drunk analyst ass. After all,
it’s a beautiful circle. Already they are starting to sense that my
‘market research’ trips to Dubai are paying early dividends. Why else
would they have agreed to a 16% expenses as a percentage of fees
arrangement (when in reality, I staffed 90% of the project with local
people, as I really did need those $17,500 first class seats. Did you
know that United’s “Global Services” status is really just 1K but you overspend so much that the airline had to think of something new?)

Moving forward, I prompt my audience (hey, why not indirectly ask
the client to solve their own problems?) to begin brainstorming related
business ideas and models. After all, they know this business and I’ve
only managed to trick them into thinking I do too. A river of ~~bullshit~~
bland and apparently viable ideas are spewing from the executives’
mouths, into my ears, through my hands, and finally into beautifully
crafted fluffy green clouds intersecting the circle. My masterpiece
highlights where the market segments intersect demand.

My Master Piece with Clouds

At this point, the executives are smiling. They think they’ve just
unlocked several untapped secrets to grow their business when what they
really untapped were three bottles of 30 year single-malt scotch and a
humidor of Cubans back at my two-story hotel suite.

In order to beef up their company’s portfolio, they can start
investing in these lateral markets to plant the seeds for long-term
growth (not unlike the newspaper companies investing more heavily in
online and digital advertising. Yep, that was my recommendation! Pretty
fucking genius for a $750,000 two-hour and fifteen minute analyst
Googling session, eh?).

After a few more minutes of deliberation, everyone is smiling, a few
even clapping and making caveman-like grunting noises. At this point, I
say thank you and excuse myself for the little boys’ room so I can piss
out all the bottles of Voss I’ve been drinking (and a little dry heave
from last night’s binge drinking session).

Finally, before leaving the executive suite floor, one of the
executives shakes my hand and tells me he is so excited to have me
helping the company return to profitability. I tell him,
“Why-Thank-You-So-Much,” and hand him the invoice. His smile turns to a
mild horizontal line. I can tell the $$$-signs have registered in his
head and I’ve blown his giddy feelings for the day despite his
new-found sense of self-preservation and job security. He’ll soon
forget about this, and maybe even his wife, after I drop a couple bones
on some well-deserved lap dances for him.

Cash

I felt proud walking out of the client site (Time: 1:45 PM on
Wednesday) and heading off to my business class seat in the upper deck
of a 747-400. I
wanted to make it home in time to prep for my night out at the clubs to
pick up a fresh piece of ass to play with for the weekend. I figure if
I’m not in Thailand or Fiji this weekend, I might as well make the most
of my penthouse apartment. I just hope the client pays the firm’s bill
on-time; otherwise, I’ll have some explaining to do to the managing partner about some cash flow issues.

Champagne

fexbog

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