OData
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OData Roadshow
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 of OData and Azure fun! More details at https://www.odata.org/roadshow -Mike Flasko Data Services, Lead Program Manager
Deep Fried OData
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 Manager, Data Services
The Open Data Protocol .NET Framework Client Library – Source Code Available for Download
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 had requests for assistance in building new client libraries for the OData protocol and we are releasing the source for the .NET Framework and Silverlight client libraries to assist in that process. We encourage anyone who is interested in the OData ecosystem and building ODat...
WCF Data Services for Silverlight 4 now available for download
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 as support for NTLM, Basic and Digest authentication. If you are using the SL3 CTP3 release, the client library in SL4 represents the production release of that feature set. For more information regarding previously released features, check out our blog post here. The enhanc...
Introduction to Databinding (Updated)
This blog post is an update to an introduction to the data binding capabilities we first added in Data Services v1.5 CTP1. We have taken the feedback received throughout the CTPs and made updates to the final design. Below is an update to the original binding post for CTP1 updated based on that feedback. Introduction to Data Binding A new collection type, DataServiceCollection, has been added to the client library which extends ObservableCollection and supports two way binding for client code. It is now possible to auto generate client side types that implement the INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyCollectionChan...
Relationship links
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 agree up front on how to address relationships. For example, most OData implementations today follow the optional URL conventions for addressing links stated in the main OData spec. This convention states that a “$links” URI path segment be used to distinguish the relationship ...
Developing an OData consumer for the Windows Phone 7
A couple of days back at Mix we announced the CTP release of the OData Client Library for Windows Phone 7 series.Cool stuff undoubtedly. But how do you use it?Well Phani, a Data Services team member, shows you how on his blog.
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 exciting new preview on the OData Blog...
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 identified using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and defined in an abstract data model, to be published and edited by Web clients using simple HTTP messages. OData enables a new level of data integration across a broad range of clients, servers, services, and tools. This mo...