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ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 Preview for .NET 5

October 19, 2020 Oct 19, 2020 10/19/20
Sam Xu
Recently, OData team released the 8.0.0 preview version of ASP.NET Core OData on nuget.org. It is the first version of OData supporting .NET 5, especially for ASP.NET Core 5. This version includes some breaking changes, such as model builder separation, namespace changes and configuration changes etc. Most importantly, the routing mechanism is...

Dynamic properties container property in OData Client

September 8, 2020 Sep 8, 2020 09/8/20
John Gathogo
When working with open types in an OData service, dynamic properties are held in a container property of type . However, support for a similar container property has traditionally been absent in OData client. For this reason, dynamic properties returned from an OData service could only be mapped to declared properties on the client backing ...

Move OData to .NET 5

April 6, 2020 Apr 6, 2020 04/6/20
Sam Xu
Introduction Along with the Announcing .NET 5 preview 1, it’s time to move OData to .NET 5. This blog is intended to describe how easy to move the BookStore sample introduced in ASP.NET Core OData now Available  onto .NET 5. Let's get started. Install .NET 5 .NET 5 SDK is required to build the .NET 5 application. So, Let’s follow ...

$select Enhancement in ASP.NET Core OData

December 30, 2019 Dec 30, 2019 12/30/19
Sam Xu
The release of ASP.NET Core OData v7.3 brings a ton of improvements to $select functionality. In this article, I’d like to introduce some of the new features of $select and its usages in combination with other query options like $filter, $top, $skip, $orderby, $count and $expand. This tutorial assumes that you already have the knowledge to ...

Optimizing Web Applications with OData $Select

October 25, 2019 Oct 25, 2019 10/25/19
Hassan Habib
OData as an API technology comes in with so many options that gives API consumers the power to shape, filter, order and navigate through the data with very few lines of code. In my previous articles I talked in details about how to enable OData on your existing ASP.NET Core API using the EDM model, in addition to that I have provided a code...

Integrating Cosmos DB with OData (Part 2)

August 4, 2019 Aug 4, 2019 08/4/19
Hassan Habib
In the first article of this series, we talked about integrating Cosmos DB with ASP.NET Core application powered by OData using a pre-built solution that was using Cosmos Client to run full CRUD operations. But that's not the only way we can work with Cosmos DB from ASP.NET Core - there are two more approaches that we could follow to work ...

Integrating Cosmos DB with OData (Part 1)

July 27, 2019 Jul 27, 2019 07/27/19
Hassan Habib
We talked in previous articles about the pluggability of OData with any storage technology regardless of its schema, whether it’s a SQL-based storage, NoSQL, In-Memory or simply a file on a hard-drive. This power of OData enables developers to work with powerful, planet-scale storage technologies such as Cosmos DB. In this article we ...

Supercharging ASP.NET Core API with OData

April 27, 2019 Apr 27, 2019 04/27/19
Hassan Habib
Summary In this article, I’m going to show you how you can supercharge your existing ASP.NET Core APIs with OData to provide better experience for your API consumers with only 4 lines of code. For the purpose of this tutorial please clone our demo project WashingtonSchools so you can follow up and try the different features we are going ...

ASP.NET Core OData now Available

July 3, 2018 Jul 3, 2018 07/3/18
Sam Xu
Introduction The Microsoft OData Team is proud to announce general availability (GA) of OData (Open OData Protocol) on ASP.NET Core 2.0. It is now available through Nuget package at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData, current its version is 7.0.0. Along this release, it will allow customers to create OData v4.0 ...