I wanted to use the new REST services in SharePoint 2010. But when I navigated to the ListData.svc service. I got the following error: “Could not load type 'System.Data.Services.Providers.IDataServiceUpdateProvider' from assembly 'System.Data.Services, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.”

Today the news broke Microsoft has extended the support for installations of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and Project Server 2007 SP1.

The Microsoft Surface is a Windows Vista computer running the Microsoft Surface Shell. This shell is by default localized for US English. It is possible to localize for other locales, but there is no configuration screen to set the desired localization. This post will summarize the different steps to localize the Surface shell.

If you want to develop for the Microsoft Surface you need a Surface device, but using the device to develop is not always practical, specially when there are more developers than Surface devices. The solution for this is to install the Surface SDK on you local development machine. This post will address some limitations you have to work around.