OData

[Announcement] ODataLib 6.2.0 release

LeoHu1 April 14, 2014 Apr 14, 2014 04/14/14

We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.2.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code on codeplex (please read the git history for the v6.2.0 code info and allprevious version). Detailed release notes are listed below. Bug fixes Fixed a bug for parsing $it in UriParser. Improved the JSON serialization performance ...

[Tutorial & Sample] Use Singleton to define your special entity

Zoe Luo March 5, 2014 Mar 5, 2014 03/5/14

Ever had a special entity where there can be only one of its kind, but bothered by having to define a one-element entity set for it? Ever wanted to request a special entity but bothered by needing to find out its key first? Use a singleton! Singleton is newly introduced in OData V4, to allow developers name such special entity, and it can be ...

New and improved EULA!

DB Blogs November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13

TL;DR: You can now (legally) use our .NET OData client and ODataLib on Android and iOS. Backstory For a while now we have been working with our legal team to improve the terms you agree to when you use one of our libraries (WCF Data Services, our OData client, or ODataLib). A year and a half ago, we announced that our EULA would include a ...

New version of OData Validator

DB Blogs October 27, 2013 Oct 27, 2013 10/27/13

The OData team has been working on updating the OData Validator tool to support the new JSON format validation. We are pleased to announce that the tool now supports validating your V3 service for all three formats – ATOM, old JSON format (aka JSON Verbose) and the new JSON format. We are also working on adding OData V4 service validation ...

WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Release

DB Blogs August 26, 2013 Aug 26, 2013 08/26/13

Recently we released updated NuGet packages for WCF Data Services 5.6.0. You will need the updated tooling (released today) to use the portable libraries feature mentioned below with code gen. What is in the release: Visual Studio 2013 Support The WCF DS 5.6.0 tooling installer has support for Visual Studio 2013. If you are using Visual ...

WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Alpha

DB Blogs June 28, 2013 Jun 28, 2013 06/28/13

Today we are releasing updated NuGet packages and tooling for WCF Data Services 5.6.0. This is an alpha release and as such we have both features to finish as well as quality to fine-tune before we release the final version. You will need the updated tooling to use the portable libraries feature mentioned below. The tooling installer is ...

WCF Data Services 5.5.0 Release

DB Blogs May 30, 2013 May 30, 2013 05/30/13

WCF Data Services 5.5.0 has officially been released! The 5.5.0 release will be another NuGet-only release as we did not make any updates to the Visual Studio tooling. The last tooling update was version 5.3.0. Services created using this version of tooling should update the runtime binaries to 5.5.0 with NuGet. What is in the release: This...

WCF Data Services 5.5.0 Prerelease

DB Blogs May 15, 2013 May 15, 2013 05/15/13

It’s that time again: yesterday we uploaded an RC for the upcoming 5.5.0 release. The 5.5.0 release will be another NuGet-only release. What is in the release: This release has two primary features: 1) significant enhancements to the URI parser and 2) public data source providers. URI Parser In the 5.2.0 release ODataLib provided a way ...

WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Release

DB Blogs April 2, 2013 Apr 2, 2013 04/2/13

Today we are releasing version 5.4.0 of WCF Data Services. As mentioned in the prerelease post, this release will be NuGet packages only. That means that we are not releasing an updated executable to the download center. If you create a new WCF Data Service or add a reference to an OData service, you should follow the standard procedure for ...

WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Prerelease

DB Blogs March 26, 2013 Mar 26, 2013 03/26/13

Recently we uploaded an RC for our upcoming 5.4.0 release. This release will be NuGet packages only. What is in the release: Client deserialization/serialization hooks We have a number of investments planned in the “request pipeline” area. In 5.4.0 we have a very big set of hooks for reaching into and modifying data as it is being read ...