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July 2010 - OData

OData and Authentication – Part 6 – Custom Basic Authentication

July 21, 2010 Jul 21, 2010 07/21/10
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You might remember, from Part 5, that Basic Authentication is built-in to IIS. So why do we need ‘Custom’ Basic Authentication? Well if you are happy using windows users and passwords you don’t. That’s because the built-in Basic Authentication, uses the Basic Authentication protocol, to authenticate against the windows ...

Deploying an OData Service in Windows Azure

July 20, 2010 Jul 20, 2010 07/20/10
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Windows Azure and SQL Azure are the new Cloud service products from Microsoft. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you can take a database that is hosted in SQL Azure and expose it as OData in a rich way using WCF Data Services and Windows Azure. This walk-through requires that you have Visual Studio 2010 and both a Windows Azure ...

OData and Authentication – Part 5 – Custom HttpModules

July 19, 2010 Jul 19, 2010 07/19/10
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In the last post we saw how to add custom authentication inside your Data Service using the ProcessingRequest event. Unfortunately that approach means authentication is not integrated or shared with the rest of your website. Which means for all but the simplest scenarios a better approach is needed: HttpModules. HttpModules can do all sort of ...