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WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Release

Today we are releasing version 5.4.0 of WCF Data Services. As mentioned in the prerelease post, this release will be NuGet packages only. That means that we are not releasing an updated executable to the download center. If you create a new WCF Data Service or add a reference to an OData service, you should follow the standard procedure for ...

WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Prerelease

Recently we uploaded an RC for our upcoming 5.4.0 release. This release will be NuGet packages only. What is in the release: Client deserialization/serialization hooks We have a number of investments planned in the “request pipeline” area. In 5.4.0 we have a very big set of hooks for reaching into and modifying data as it is being read ...

WCF Data Services 5.3.0 RTW

Today we are releasing an updated version of the WCF Data Services NuGet packages and tools installer. As mentioned in the prerelease blog post, this version of WCF DS has three notable new features as well as over 20 bug fixes. What is in the release: Instance annotations on feeds and entries (JSON only) Instance annotations are an ...

WCF Data Services 5.3.0-rc1 Prerelease

Today we released an updated version of the WCF Data Services NuGet packages and tools installer. This version of WCF DS has some notable new features as well as several bug fixes. What is in the release: Instance annotations on feeds and entries (JSON only) Instance annotations are an extensibility feature in OData feeds that allow OData ...

WCF Data Services 5.2.0 Released

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...

WCF Data Services 5.2.0-rc1 Prerelease

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 ...

Using Add Service Reference with OData services after installing Windows Phone SDK 8.0

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...

How to update existing Windows Phone 7 OData applications to work with the new client tools

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 ...

OData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps Now Available

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 ...

Important: Security Advisory 2749655 affects WCF DS

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 ...