OData
Create and consume RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way
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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...
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 be shipping with Silverlight 4. However, we wanted to give our users an early opportunity to try out our new features in Silverlight. This is a side by side update. We recommend that you do not replace the original assembly. Instead, just extract the files and reference it fr...
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 the Data Services Update for .NET 3.5 SP1. Alex JamesProgram ManagerMicrosoft
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 vote up/down features entered by other users. Get your voice heard! Visit our feature voting site now to file your favorite feature request and vote on the ones already there. We look forward to your feedback. UPDATE (Sept 2010): we’ve upgraded our feature voting s...
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 teach you how to set limits on a service, and finally I will teach you how to work with the partial pages in the data services client. If you already know what server paging is and just want to enable it, you can skip to part 2. If you don’t care about setting limits on the serv...
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 to the new Code-Gen features. To do this after you installed the update you need to create two environment variables: Set dscodegen_version to 2.0. This tells CodeGeneration to generate classes that can leverage V2 protocol features. Set dscodegen_usedsc to 1. This tells CodeGe...