Chris Woodruff

Every year, Microsoft awards a group of Developer MVPs with an additional recognition. It has become a tradition to recognize those MVPs who have demonstrated exceptional community effort by inviting them to a special dinner during the yearly MVP Summit event located at the Redmond headquarters. Technical Fellows Anders Hejlsberg and Brian Harry were hosts […]

I have had a few days to recover from the last 10 days of launches, releases, announcements and presentations from Microsoft and after catching up from the sleep deprivation, I have had an epiphany. Everything you knew about Microsoft has not changed but everything you knew about Microsoft has been turned upside-down. First let’s look […]

I was awarded for the 5th year (not concurrent with a 3 month gap between the first and second years) as a Microsoft MVP. I was moved from the Data Platform Development group to Visual C# and could not be more happy about the move. I have a lot of friends both in the C# […]

I’ll be speaking at a brand new cloud & virtualization conference for IT professionals, systems administrators, developers and consultants – Cloud & Virtualization Live!, December 10-14 in Orlando, FL. http://bit.ly/CVSPEAK25 I’ll be presenting the following sessions: · Developing Mobile Solutions with Azure and Windows Phone · Pushing Data to and from the Cloud with SQL […]

I am taking some time off this summer to spend time with my family and do some writing. My return to the community will happen in August at the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells for the first ThatConference conference. I am very excited because I am speaking on some great topics and looking forward to seeing […]

Perficient’s National Microsoft Cloud Practice Lead Chris Woodruff will be speaking at this week’s Code PaLOUsa 2012 Conference in Louisville, KY covering the Open Data Protocol (OData) during a Pre-Conference workshop Thursday and 2 OData presentations Friday and Saturday. Tickets are still available at the conference home page. Here is the list of Chris’ workshop and presentations: Thursday […]

Before we can learn about Addressing Entities in OData, we have to lay the ground work for all OData commanding including queries. We will first detail and demonstrate the Uniform Resource Identifier or URI and then look at a URI for OData. What is a URI? An URI is a string that is used to […]

Let’s go back 15 years ago when I started professionally developing software and using relational databases. The relational database was a great tool to deal with data. No more did we have to use flat files to store our data with tools named Paradox, dBase and other such data management systems. We now had more […]

From Day 2 of the series, we looked at data types that are present in the OData protocol. These data types allow for the richness of the data experience. Next we will look at taking these data types and crafting the entities that make up the OData feed. An OData feed is very much like […]

Since data is the basis for all OData feeds it is natural to see then that describing the data that represents the types Entities with in the feed is important. It is not only important for the data but also for the metadata that plays a significant role in the OData protocol. The OData protocol […]

What is the Open Data Protocol? The official statement for Open Data Protocol (OData) is that is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. Really what that means is that we can select, save, delete and […]

Date: October 20, 2011 Time: 1:00-2:00 PM EST Register Now! http://microsoftbuild4.eventbrite.com/ During the week of September 12, 2011, Microsoft announced ground-breaking news at their BUILD conference in Anaheim, CA. Much was learned from Microsoft in regards to their Cloud strategies. One of Perficient’s Microsoft experts, Chris Woodruff, has compiled details and analysis from the BUILD […]