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Named Resource Streams

November 12, 2010 Nov 12, 2010 11/12/10
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One of the new WCF Data Services features in the October 2010 CTP is something called Named Resource Streams. Background Data Services already supports Media Link Entries which allows you to associate a single streamed blob with an entry.  For example, you could have a Photo entry that lists the metadata about the photo and...

Introduction to Multi-Valued Properties

November 11, 2010 Nov 11, 2010 11/11/10
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Although you may see both the terms, “Bags” and “Multi-Valued Property”, they refer to the same thing. While this naming change was not included with the latest WCF Data Services 2010 October CTP release, based on community feedback, we’ve decided to use Multi-Valued Property for all future releases. What is a Bag Type...

Data Services Client for Win Phone 7 Now Available!

October 28, 2010 Oct 28, 2010 10/28/10
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  Today, at the PDC, we announced that a production-ready version of the WCF Data Services client for Windows Phone 7 is available for download from http://odata.codeplex.com.  This means that it is now simple to create an app that connects your Windows Phone 7 to all the existing OData services as well as the new ones we’re ...

Walkthrough: OData client for Windows Live Services

October 26, 2010 Oct 26, 2010 10/26/10
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Background As described recently on the Windows Live team blog, programming against your Windows Live artifacts (Calendar, Photos, etc) is now possible using OData. This blog post will walk through how to use our recently released WCF Data Services CTP to interact with the Windows Live OData endpoint. In general the Windows Live OData ...

Announcing WCF Data Services Oct 2010 CTP1 for .NET4 & SL4

October 26, 2010 Oct 26, 2010 10/26/10
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Today we are releasing CTP1 of the next version of the WCF Data Services libraries.  This release targets .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 and includes new client and server features in addition to those that shipped as part of .NET 4 & SL4.  With this CTP, you can now use the WCF Data Services client to talk to your Windows Live ...

WCF Data Services Client Library and Windows Phone 7 – Next Steps

September 27, 2010 Sep 27, 2010 09/27/10
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We’ve received a fair number of questions regarding our current CTP library for Windows Phone 7 and what our RTM plans are. The goal of this post is to address many of those questions by describing our plans for the coming months…. Background The CTP release of the data services client that is currently available for the phone was an ...

ASP.NET Security Vulnerability

September 20, 2010 Sep 20, 2010 09/20/10
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Over the weekend the ASP.NET team released a Microsoft Security Advisory about a security vulnerability found in ASP.NET: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2416728.mspx The WCF Data Services team looked into the issue and don’t believe there is any additional exposure to the vulnerability beyond what is exposed by ASP.NET...

What do you want to see added/changed in WCF Data Services?

September 10, 2010 Sep 10, 2010 09/10/10
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As we’ve posted a few times before on this blog the data services team is beginning to explore improvements and new features for our next release.  As part of this process, it’s critical that we hear your feedback, as it helps us ensure that what we build actually meets your requirements in real-world scenarios.  Today we’re ...

Data Services Streaming Provider Series-Part 2: Accessing a Media Resource Stream from the Client

September 8, 2010 Sep 8, 2010 09/8/10
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In this second post in the series on implementing a streaming data provider, we show how to use the WCF Data Services client library to access binary data exposed by an Open Data Protocol (OData) feed, as well as has how to upload binary data to the data service. For more information on the streaming provider, see the first blog post in this ...