We’re pleased to announce that today we are releasing NuGet packages and a tools installer for WCF Data Services 5.2.0. As mentioned in the prerelease blog post, this release brings in the UriParser from ODataLib Contrib and contains a few bug fixes. Bug Fixes This release contains the following noteworthy bug fixes: URI Parser...
A couple of days ago we posted a new set of NuGet packages and today we posted a new tools installer for WCF Data Services 5.2.0-rc1. This prerelease integrates the UriParser from ODataLib Contrib and fixes a few bugs. What is in the prerelease This prerelease contains the following noteworthy bug fixes: URI Parser In this rel...
In this post, we will talk about how you can continue to consume OData v3 services after installing Windows Phone SDK 8.0. If you are a developer who is using WCF Data Services to produce OData v3 services in Visual Studio 2012 and also only installed the new Windows Phone SDK 8.0 but not the OData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps then you may ...
OData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps is recently released to add support for consuming OData v3 services. You may already have a Windows Phone 7.1 application that consumes OData and want to update it to work with OData V3 services using the new Windows Phone SDK 8.0 and OData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps. In this short po...
Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone SDK 8.0 were just announced and we are pleased to announce that OData Client Tools for Windows Phone 8 is also now available from the download center. OData Client Tools for Windows Phone 8 brings OData V3 support to the Windows Phone platform. This release enables you to consume OData V3 services in your Wi...
What is the advisory? Microsoft just released Security Advisory 2749655, which addresses “an issue involving specific digital certificates that were generated by Microsoft without the proper timestamp attributes.” If you are using WCF Data Services 5.0.1 or have previously installed the WCF Data Services MSI from the download center, you may run i...
Today we are releasing refreshed NuGet packages as well as an installer for WCF Data Services 5.1.0-rc2. This RC is very close to complete. We do still have a few optimizations to make in the payload, but this RC is very representative of the final product. The RC introduces several new features: The new JSON serialization format W...
We’re happy to announce the release of WCF Data Services 5.0.2. What’s in this release This release contains a number of bug fixes: Getting the release The release is only available on NuGet. To install this prerelease NuGet package, you can use the Package Manager GUI or one of the following co...
TL;DR: If you’re bin-deploying WCF Data Services you need to make sure that the .svc file contains the right version string (or no version string). The idea for this post originated from an email I received yesterday. The author of the email, George Tsiokos (@gtsiokos), complained of a bug where updating from WCF Data Services 5.0 to 5.0.1 broke h...
TL;DR: OData does not currently support enum types, and WCF Data Services throws an unclear exception when using the EF provider with a model that has an enum property. Mark the property with a [NotMapped] attribute to get around this limitation. In today’s OData 101, we’ll take a look at a problem you might run into if you have an Entity Framewor...
