OData

Create and consume RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way

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Problem Statement OData (the protocol used by WCF Data Services) enables you to address the relationships between Entries. This functionality is required to be able to create or change a relationship between two instances, such as an Order_Detail that is related to a given Order. Currently the OData protocol requires clients and servers to ...

Got SQL Azure? Then you’ve got OData

In his MIX Keynote this week, Douglas Purdy demonstrated a new OData Service for SQL Azure. We are pleased to announce that a preview of this exciting technology, providing the quickest no-code solution for bringing your SQL Azure data into the growing OData ecosystem, is available to all SQL Azure users today.You can learn more about this ...

Announcing the OData SDK

Last November at PDC 09 we announced the Open Data Protocol (OData), providing a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData makes it easy for data to be shared in a manner that follows the philosophy of Open Data and enables the creation of REST-based data services. These services allow resources ...

MSDN Mag: Using the OData Ajax library

Dino Esposito has written a nice article in the March 2010 MSDN magazine on how to use the OData Ajax library.  You can check it out here.   -Mike Flasko Data Services, Lead Program Manager...

ADO.NET Data Services for Silverlight 3 Update CTP3 now available for download

A few weeks back, we announced our Data Services update to .NET 3.5 SP1. That release introduced many new features. We are now releasing the Silverlight counterpart, ADO.NET Data Services for Silverlight 3 Update CTP3. This CTP updates our Silverlight client assembly to make use of the new features. This release is just a CTP because we will ...

Compatibility Note: SharePoint 2010 Beta & Data Services Update

If you want to try out Data Services with the SharePoint 2010 Beta today you have to use CTP2 of Data Services v1.5, because unfortunately the Data Service RTM version, aka the Data Services Update for .NET 3.5 SP1 is incompatible with the SharePoint 2010 Beta. This is a point in time issue – when SharePoint RTMs it will work seamlessly with...

Vote for future Data Services Features

Now that our current releases are winding down we’ve begun shifting some of our focus to planning for the next round.  To help us prioritize our future work we’d like to hear from you.  To make it easy to submit feedback directly to our team we’ve created a feature voting site.  The site enables you to request a feature or...

Server Paging in Data Services

The Data Services team recently released an update to.NET 3.5 SP1 that adds a number of features to data services – we are calling this update Data Services V2. One of the major features included in this update is the ability to enable server paging on a Data Service. In this post, I’ll introduce you to the concept of page limits, I will ...

Getting Started with the Data Service Update for .NET 3.5 SP1 – Part 2

In Part 1 we created a Data Service that exposes V2 of the OData Protocol, in this post we will create a WPF application to consume our Data Service. Walkthrough: Step 1 – Update Code Generation Settings: The Data Services Update is basically a patch to .NET 3.5 SP1, so it can’t break existing projects, this means we need a way to opt-in ...