Stephen Forte will be speaking at the SQL Server User Group on Thursday at 6pm. You
must register to attend: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134822

Location: Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA
building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor

Directions: B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.

Session Info:
Applications today are expected to expose their data and consume
data-centric services via REST. In this session we discuss ADO .NET
Data Services or "Project Astoria" and see how we can REST enable your
data. Then you will learn how to leverage existing skills related to
LINQ and data access to customize the behavior, control-flow, security
model and experience of your data service. We will then see how to
enable data-binding to traditional ASP.NET controls as well as
Silverlight Then switching gears we will look quickly at consuming of
REST services from any platform (including Ruby on Rails) using Visual
Studio and the WCF REST Starter kit. We will conclude with a
discussion on developing offline applications with the ability to sync
back to the online data service. This is a very demo intensive session.