OData

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Using Restricted Characters in Data Service Keys

May 21, 2010 May 21, 2010 05/21/10
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If your Data Service includes entities with a string key, you can run into problems if the keys themselves contain certain restricted characters. For example OData has this uri convention for identifying entities: ~/Feed('key') So if the 'key' contains certain characters it can confuse Uri parsing and processing. Thankfully though Peter Qian...

OData and Authentication – Part 1

May 10, 2010 May 10, 2010 05/10/10
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Here on the Data Services team we hear many people ask about authentication. Questions like: The answer to these questions, depends a lot upon scenario, in fact each authentication scenario presents unique challenges: As you can see lots of questions. And there is a real risk that people will get their answer ...

ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 – Refresh

May 8, 2010 May 8, 2010 05/8/10
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The Data Services team has released a refresh of the ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 today and provides fixes for issues reported to us in the update to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. For Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 the refresh can be downloaded here. For Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 ...

Windows Phone Developer Tools April 2010 Refresh and the OData Client

May 7, 2010 May 7, 2010 05/7/10
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Two months ago we released an OData Library for the Windows Phone 7 – see the blog post here. If you have downloaded the recent April 2010 Refresh of the Windows Phone Developer Tools you will have found that there is an issue in the refresh of the tools with loading the OData library. If you reference the System.Data.Services.Client.dll ...

OData Roadshow

May 5, 2010 May 5, 2010 05/5/10
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We are taking the MIX10 Services Powering Experiences content on the road. New York, NY – May 12, 2010 Chicago, IL – May 14, 2010 Mountain View, CA – May 18, 2010 Shanghai, China – June 1, 2010 Tokyo, Japan – June 3, 2010 Reading, United Kingdom – June 15, 2010 Paris, France – June 17, 2010 One full day ...

Deep Fried OData

April 28, 2010 Apr 28, 2010 04/28/10
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I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chris Woodruff, a host of the Deep Fried Bytes podcast, at MIX 2010 to talk about OData and some of the announcements around OData at the conference.  The podcast is available at: http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-53-a-lap-around-odata-with-mike-flasko/   -Mike Flasko Lead Program ...

The Open Data Protocol .NET Framework Client Library – Source Code Available for Download

April 26, 2010 Apr 26, 2010 04/26/10
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We are happy to announce that we have made the source code for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Silverlight 3.0 Open Data Protocol (OData) client libraries available for download on the Codeplex website. This release represents the OData team’s continued commitment to the OData protocol and the ecosystem that has been built around it. We have ...

WCF Data Services for Silverlight 4 now available for download

April 20, 2010 Apr 20, 2010 04/20/10
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A couple of months ago, we released an update to .NET 3.5 SP1 and its counterpart ADO.NET Data Services for Silverlight 3 Update CTP3. I am now pleased to announce that we have shipped an updated Data Services client library with Silverlight 4. This release includes all the features that we shipped in the SL3 CTP3 Data Service release as well ...