I’m very pleased to announce the WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM release. You can download WCF Data Services 5.0 from here. This release includes several client and server features and libraries for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4. Below is a brief breakdown of the features that are available in this release. Upcoming blog posts will dive into Vocabularie...

  I’m very excited to announce the release of OData T4 for C# Preview 1, for the October 2011 CTP of the next version of WCF Data Services libraries, with support for code generation of service operations. The goal of this T4 preview and subsequent ones will be to get community feedback on the templates before having “Add Service Reference” n...

This CTP of WCF Data Services adds support for geospatial data. The release allows use of all of the OData geospatial data types and the geo.distance() canonical function. This enables two key scenarios: Before I illustrate use of these features, I'd like to mention some limitations of this CTP. First, (and most significantly) WCF Data Services pro...

“Actions will provide a way to inject behaviors into an otherwise data-centric model without confusing the data aspects of the model, while still staying true to the resource oriented underpinnings of OData." The October 2011 CTP of WCF Data Services adds powerful, but incomplete support for Actions. The motivation behind Actions stems from ...

  This blog talks about a new feature delivered in the WCF Data Services October CTP that can be downloaded here. WCF Data Services’ latest CTP includes a new stand-alone library for working directly with OData. The library makes public some underpinnings of WCF Data Services (the server and client library), and we made this library stan...

Update (6/4/2012): This post is updated to reflect the few changes that were made to the vocabularies in OData v3 and the vocabularies feature in WCF Data Services 5.0. Please download the WCF Data Services 5.0 from the download center to follow along the code samples below. One new feature in WCF Data Services  is Vocabularies. You can lea...

    I’m very excited to announce the release of the October 2011 CTP of the next version of WCF Data Services libraries. This release includes libraries for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 with new client and server features in addition to those included in our last October 2010, March 2011 and June 2011 CTPs. Below is a brief summary of the...

  One of the most frequently requested features for OData is payload compression. We have added two events to DataServiceContext in the OData phone client included in the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 that enables you to work with compressed payloads: Now, let’s take a look at these in action. Here is a method that adds support for gzip...

Microsoft recently released the developer preview of the next version Windows as well as a developer preview of Visual Studio 11 for building apps on the new version of Windows. Some of you may have noticed that the “New Item” template for creating a WCF Data Services isn't working correctly (this is pre-release “preview” so...

We have just released a new drop of ODataLib and EdmLib on CodePlex as a shared source project. ODataLib is a library used for advanced OData serialization and deserialization scenarios, and EdmLib is a library used to manipulate entity data models. We invite you to download the code and test it out – this is very much an alpha release so any and a...