Michael Pizzo is a Principle Architect in the Identity Division, working on Microsoft Graph and Open Data Connectivity (OData). He has worked for over 30 years in the design, standardization, and delivery of data access solutions and APIs at Microsoft including ODBC, OLE DB, ADO.NET, ADO.NET Entity Framework, and OData. Michael is currently an editor and co-Chair of the OASIS OData Technical Committee.
WCF Data Services
Microsoft initially released WCF Data Services as an easy way to implement an OData service over queryable data sources. This made it very easy to expose a model backed by the Entity Framework as an OData Service, and included a data provider model for plugging in other types of queryable data sources. WCF Data Services ...
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