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ASP.NET Core - OData

Tutorial: Build gRPC & OData in ASP.NET Core

April 20, 2022 Apr 20, 2022 04/20/22
Sam Xu
Introduction gRPC (google Remote Procedure Call) is a high-performance remote procedure call framework that helps developers to build and consume remote services using the same way as calling local APIs. Different from gRPC, OData (Open Data Protocol) is an OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for developers to build and ...

API versioning extension with ASP.NET Core OData 8

July 9, 2021 Jul 9, 2021 07/9/21
Sam Xu
Introduction API versioning can help evolving our APIs without changing or breaking the existing API services. URL segment, request header, and query string are three ways to achieve API versioning in ASP.NET Core application. ASP.NET Core OData 8, built upon ASP.NET Core, has the built-in API versioning functionality via route URL prefix ...

Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 RC

April 7, 2021 Apr 7, 2021 04/7/21
Sam Xu
Introduction Attribute routing is how Web API matches the incoming HTTP requests to an action based on route template attributes decorated on controller or action. ASP.NET Core defines a set of route template attributes to enable attribute routing, such as RouteAttribute, HttpGetAttribute etc. ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 RC supports these ...

ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 Preview for .NET 5

October 19, 2020 Oct 19, 2020 10/19/20
Sam Xu
Recently, OData team released the 8.0.0 preview version of ASP.NET Core OData on nuget.org. It is the first version of OData supporting .NET 5, especially for ASP.NET Core 5. This version includes some breaking changes, such as model builder separation, namespace changes and configuration changes etc. Most importantly, the routing mechanism is...

$select Enhancement in ASP.NET Core OData

December 30, 2019 Dec 30, 2019 12/30/19
Sam Xu
The release of ASP.NET Core OData v7.3 brings a ton of improvements to $select functionality. In this article, I’d like to introduce some of the new features of $select and its usages in combination with other query options like $filter, $top, $skip, $orderby, $count and $expand. This tutorial assumes that you already have the knowledge to ...