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By default when you add a Data Service Service Reference you get automatic code-generation, which produces a strongly typed DataServiceContext and classes for all your ResourceTypes. You can have a look at this generated code if you ‘show all files...

In Tip 45 I showed you how to build a connection string at runtime, which is pretty nifty. The problem with that was that it relies on having metadata files (.csdl .ssdl and .msl) on local disk. But what if they live on a web-server or something...

Whenever I find myself implementing a series of interfaces to plug into a framework or server, I always find myself wondering how the server will call my implementations. For me this is about forming a mental model to simplify how I think about what...

In Part 4 of our series showing how to implement a Custom Data Service Provider we hooked up an incomplete implementation of IDataServiceQueryProvider , just enough to get the ServiceDocument and $metadata working. In this part we’ll get query working...

Recently I’ve been spending some of my time playing with JQuery . And because Data Services can expose data in JSON format, I thought I’d use JQuery to grab some data from a Data Service. Turns out it is pretty simple. This example isn’t going...

This is Part 4 of my ongoing series of posts showing how to create an Custom Data Service Provider . NOTE: I’ve done a little refactoring to the code in Part 3 to simplify the code in this post, so be sure to check that out if you’ve been following along...

UPDATE: I’ve made a few updates to the code / write-up to reflect refactors I’ve made as I’ve implemented more of the interfaces. This is Part 3 of my ongoing series on Creating a Data Service Provider , and in this post we’ll look at how to implement...

Introduction Data Services sits above a Data Service Provider, which is responsible for interacting with the underlying Data Source on behalf of the Data Service. Data Services ships with some internal providers, and makes it possible for you to...

To create a read-only Data Service Provider (or DSP) you need to implement two Data Services interfaces: IDataServiceMetadataProvider to provide the metadata and IDataServiceQueryProvider to handle the queries. But first Data Services needs a way to...

One of the the coolest things about Data Services is its provider model. Any data-source can be exposed as an OData Data Service simply by implementing a few interfaces. SharePoint 2010 implements these interfaces to expose list data, and you can too...