OData

[Tutorial & Sample] Refering when Constructing EDM Model

June 30, 2014 Jun 30, 2014 06/30/14

Liang Wang [MSFT]

Introduction EDM model plays a very important role in OData. When you want to use OData, the first thing should be constructing an EDM model. Previously, you need to build a complete EDM model, which means all types, terms, operations used in an EDM model should be declared in itself. If there are some elements in an existing model (CSDL), ...

[Announcement] ODataLib 6.4.0 Release

June 24, 2014 Jun 24, 2014 06/24/14

LeoHu1

We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.4.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code oncodeplex (please read the git history for the v6.4.0 code info and all previous version). Detailed release notes are listed below. Bug Fix New Features   ODataLib now supports new aysnc API in ....

[Tutorial & Sample] How to enable authentication for metadata documents in the OData Client Code Generator

June 22, 2014 Jun 22, 2014 06/22/14

Layla Liu

Currently, the OData Client Code Generator doesn’t support authentication for metadata documents. Although authenticating the access to OData metadata documents is not encouraged for service builders unless they has a good reason to do so, However, it might not be easy to exclude $metadata from the authentication required by the service. ...

[Announcement] ODataLib 6.3.0 Release

April 30, 2014 Apr 30, 2014 04/30/14

LeoHu1

We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.3.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code oncodeplex (please read the git history for the v6.3.0 code info and allprevious version). Detailed release notes are listed below. Bug Fix New Features   ODataLib now supports referencing external ...

[Tutorial & Sample] How to Use Open Type in OData

April 29, 2014 Apr 29, 2014 04/29/14

Liang Wang [MSFT]

OData protocol introduces conception of open type which allows clients to add properties dynamically to instances of the type by specifying uniquely named values in the payload used to insert or update an instance of the type. This makes definition of entity type or complex type more flexible. Developers do not have to define everything which ...

[Announcement] ODataLib 6.2.0 release

April 14, 2014 Apr 14, 2014 04/14/14

LeoHu1

We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.2.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code on codeplex (please read the git history for the v6.2.0 code info and allprevious version). Detailed release notes are listed below. Bug fixes Fixed a bug for parsing $it in UriParser. Improved the JSON serialization performance ...

[Tutorial & Sample] Client Property Tracking for PATCH

April 9, 2014 Apr 9, 2014 04/9/14

Layla Liu

  In OData Client for .NET 6.2.0, we enabled the top level property tracking on client side when sending a PATCH. This feature allows client to send only updated properties, instead of the entire object to server. The top level property tracking means the client will only track the highest level properties in the class hierarchy. In...

[Discussion] Future Direction of WCF Data Services

March 27, 2014 Mar 27, 2014 03/27/14

Mike Pizzo

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 ...

[Announcement] ODataLib 6.1.0 release

March 21, 2014 Mar 21, 2014 03/21/14

Yi Ding - MSFT

Hi all, As our commitment in rolling out new functionality in the OData V4 protocol continuously, we are excited to announce that OData Core Libraries 6.1 has been released to NuGet.  This release contains four packages, Core, EDM, Spatial and the .Net client. Call to Action If your team has an existing OData service or is ...

[Announcement] OData core libraries now support OData v4

March 21, 2014 Mar 21, 2014 03/21/14

Yi Ding - MSFT

Hi all, We are tremendously excited to announce that we have released version 6.0.0 of the OData core libraries to NuGet on Jan 27th. This release is particularly noteworthy as it is the first production-ready releasewith support for OData v4, the newest version of the OData protocol. We had two primary goals for this release: We have ...