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I’ve been playing around with creating a custom Astoria Data Service Provider , aka DSP, for a while now. So far I’d managed to get my metadata all setup, so browsing to $metadata works great. I’d got a few simple queries work. Basically everything was...

Problem: Take this code: Category oldCategory = ctx.Categories .Include("Products") .First(c => c.Name == "Drink"); Category newCategory = new Category {Name = "Beverage"}; foreach(Product product in oldCategory.Products) { newCategory.Products...

Every wonder if you can host an Astoria Data Service in WCF? Well turns out the answer is yes, in fact once you’ve got your references set up etc it is pretty easy. Step 1 – Setting up your project Here is what my working project looks like: In this example...