OData

Data Services Streaming Provider Series: Implementing a Streaming Provider (Part 1)

August 4, 2010 Aug 4, 2010 08/4/10

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The Open Data Protocol (OData) enables you to define data feeds that also make binary large object (BLOB) data, such as photos, videos, and documents, available to client applications that consume OData feeds. These BLOBs are not returned within the feed itself (for obvious serialization, memory consumption and performance reasons). Instead, ...

OData and Authentication – Part 7 – Forms Authentication

July 21, 2010 Jul 21, 2010 07/21/10

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Our goal in this post is to re-use the Forms Authentication already in a website to secure a new Data Service. To bootstrap this we need a website that uses Forms Auth. Turns out the MVC Music Store Sample is perfect for our purposes because: The rest of this post assumes you’ve downloaded and installed the MVC ...

OData and Authentication – Part 6 – Custom Basic Authentication

July 21, 2010 Jul 21, 2010 07/21/10

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You might remember, from Part 5, that Basic Authentication is built-in to IIS. So why do we need ‘Custom’ Basic Authentication? Well if you are happy using windows users and passwords you don’t. That’s because the built-in Basic Authentication, uses the Basic Authentication protocol, to authenticate against the windows ...

Deploying an OData Service in Windows Azure

July 20, 2010 Jul 20, 2010 07/20/10

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Windows Azure and SQL Azure are the new Cloud service products from Microsoft. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you can take a database that is hosted in SQL Azure and expose it as OData in a rich way using WCF Data Services and Windows Azure. This walk-through requires that you have Visual Studio 2010 and both a Windows Azure ...

OData and Authentication – Part 5 – Custom HttpModules

July 19, 2010 Jul 19, 2010 07/19/10

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In the last post we saw how to add custom authentication inside your Data Service using the ProcessingRequest event. Unfortunately that approach means authentication is not integrated or shared with the rest of your website. Which means for all but the simplest scenarios a better approach is needed: HttpModules. HttpModules can do all sort of ...

OData and Authentication – Part 4 – Server Side Hooks

July 19, 2010 Jul 19, 2010 07/19/10

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If you secure an OData Service using Windows authentication – see Part 2 to learn how – everything works as expected out of the box. What however if you need a different authentication scheme? Well the answer as always depends upon your scenario. Broadly speaking what you need to do depends upon how your Data Service is hosted...

Join the OData Mailing List

June 28, 2010 Jun 28, 2010 06/28/10

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Today we released an OData Mailing List.  This is the list to use if you have OData questions, comments on OData or want to discuss how OData should evolve over time.  To sign up to the list go here and follow the instructions provided.  The list is fully open so anyone can subscribe and participate.  Be sure to read the ...

TechEd 2010 OData Service

June 6, 2010 Jun 6, 2010 06/6/10

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TechEd North America 2010 is fast approaching (it starts Monday). This year we have added an OData service to the TechEd site, just like we did for MIX10 earlier this year. The service exposes the sessions, speakers and other associated information for the conference and is a great way to learn OData. Check-out the API page on the TechEd site ...

OData Workshops in Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicago and NYC

June 1, 2010 Jun 1, 2010 06/1/10

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Chris (aka Woody) Woodruff has organized a series of OData workshops to compliment the official OData Roadshow. This is highly recommended. So if for whatever reason you can’t make it to one of the OData Roadshow events, or you just can’t get enough OData, see if you can get along to one of Chris’ workshops. The workshops start in ...

Service Operations and the WCF Data Services Client

May 26, 2010 May 26, 2010 05/26/10

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Service Operations in WCF Data Services allow you to create WCF style methods on your service. In general it is good practice to do most of your CRUD operations directly on the entities exposed by your WCF Data Services model but every once in a while you may have a need to do some custom operation that isn’t covered by the model and this is...