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WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Alpha

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

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

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

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

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 ...

WCF Data Services 5.3.0 RTW

Today we are releasing an updated version of the WCF Data Services NuGet packages and tools installer. As mentioned in the prerelease blog post, this version of WCF DS has three notable new features as well as over 20 bug fixes. What is in the release: Instance annotations on feeds and entries (JSON only) Instance annotations are an ...

WCF Data Services 5.3.0-rc1 Prerelease

Today we released an updated version of the WCF Data Services NuGet packages and tools installer. This version of WCF DS has some notable new features as well as several bug fixes. What is in the release: Instance annotations on feeds and entries (JSON only) Instance annotations are an extensibility feature in OData feeds that allow OData ...

WCF Data Services 5.2.0 Released

We’re pleased to announce that today we are releasing NuGet packages and a tools installer for WCF Data Services 5.2.0. As mentioned in the prerelease blog post, this release brings in the UriParser from ODataLib Contrib and contains a few bug fixes. Bug Fixes This release contains the following noteworthy bug fixes: URI...

WCF Data Service 5.1.0-rc2 Released

Today we are releasing refreshed NuGet packages as well as an installer for WCF Data Services 5.1.0-rc2. This RC is very close to complete. We do still have a few optimizations to make in the payload, but this RC is very representative of the final product. The RC introduces several new features: The new JSON serialization ...

OData 101: Building our first OData-based Windows Store app (Part 2)

Download the sample code In the previous blog post, we walked through the steps to build an OData-enabled client using the new Windows UI. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some of the code that makes it happen. ODataBindable, SampleDataItem and SampleDataGroup In the walkthrough, we repurposed SampleDataSource.cs with some code ...