OData

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Samples - OData

Using the new client hooks in WCF Data Services Client

July 26, 2013 Jul 26, 2013 07/26/13
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What are the Request and Response Pipeline configurations in WCF Data Services Client? In WCF Data Services 5.4 we added a new pattern to allow developers to hook into the client request and response pipelines. In the server, we have long had the concept of a processing pipeline. Developers can use the processing pipeline event to tweak how ...

OData 101: Using the [NotMapped] attribute to exclude Enum properties

August 29, 2012 Aug 29, 2012 08/29/12
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TL;DR: OData does not currently support enum types, and WCF Data Services throws an unclear exception when using the EF provider with a model that has an enum property. Mark the property with a [NotMapped] attribute to get around this limitation. In today’s OData 101, we’ll take a look at a problem you might run into if you have an Entity...

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

August 23, 2012 Aug 23, 2012 08/23/12
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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 ...

OData 101: Building our first OData-based Windows Store app (Part 1)

August 23, 2012 Aug 23, 2012 08/23/12
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Download the sample code In this OData 101 we will build a Windows Store app that consumes and displays movies from the Netflix OData feed. Specifically, we will focus on getting data, displaying it in the default grid layout, and enabling search functionality. Because there’s a lot of details to talk about in this blog post, we’ll...