Microsoft released the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services, which
makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of the ADO.NET
Data Services, a set of features recently added to the .NET Framework.
The PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services is an open source project
funded by Microsoft and developed by Persistent Systems. It is
available on Microsoft's CodePlex community development site.
In a blog post about the release, Peter Galli, a Microsoft open-source community manager, said:
"These services, which were previously referred to by the codename
Project Astoria, expose a wide range of data sources through a RESTful
service interface.
"There is full support for ADO.NET Data Services in Visual Studio
2008 SP1 as well as in the upcoming Visual Studio 2010, which includes
direct support for both creating and consuming data services directly
from the development environment."
Also, in a separate blog post detailing the new project, Claudio
Caldato, senior program manager on Microsoft's Interoperability
Technical Strategy team, said:
You should consider two aspects of the PHP Toolkit:
At design time: the PHP Toolkit generates proxy classes based on the
metadata exposed by the ADO.NET Data Services (built with Visual
Studio, including Express editions).
At run time: you call from your code the PHP proxy classes, so that
you can easily program against the ADO.NET Data Service using a set of
local PHP classes that represent the structure of the remote data.
Using RESTful services over HTTP, the communication between the PHP
application and ADO.NET Data Services is taken care of by the PHP proxy
classes and the Toolkit libraries, but of course you can look at (or
edit) this code.
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