Yesterday (Monday 10th December 2007) the December CTP of ADO.NET Data Services (the new name for Microsoft Codename "Astoria") was released. This is considered to be the first CTP of this product on the grounds that the May 2007 CTP and the September 2007 CTP were based on a prototype and this new CTP is based on production code. There are many new features but of immediate importance is the fact that this release works with the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 and the RTM of Visual Studio 2008.

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