We have just pushed the official bits for 5.0.1 to NuGet and should be releasing an updated MSI sometime within the next week. Thanks to feedback from the community we found and fixed several bugs, detailed below. NuGet Links http://www.nuget.org/packages...

Today we are releasing an updated EULA for WCF Data Services. Effective as of WCF Data Services 5.0.1, the DLLs that constitute the runtime components of WCF Data Services are now officially redistributable. Please see the attached EULAs for more details...

We recently posted about trying to release WCF Data Services more frequently, and some of the changes we’re making . In this post, we’ll take a slightly deeper look at NuGet,bin deploy, and where WCF Data Services is headed. Managing dependencies with...

Like other teams at Microsoft, WCF Data Services has been working toward a goal of more frequent releases. We released 5.0 on April 9 and we pre-released WCF Data Services 5.0.1-rc* on April 20 (we’ll release the final version of 5.0.1 very soon). The...

Phani just published a blog post with directions on how to build OData apps for Windows 8 Metro. The Metro bits are still very much in a prerelease form (e.g., you’ll have to invoke codegen with a command line tool) but it should enable developers to...

Less than two weeks ago, we released WCF Data Services 5.0.0 . Today, we are releasing 5.1.0-rc as a NuGet prerelease. What is in the prerelease This prerelease contains several bug fixes: WCF Data Services fails to work properly with the $expand query...

We recently put together a document that contains some of our thinking about JSON light as well as a whole slew of sample payloads. We would love to hear any feedback you have on the format; you can comment in the accompanying OneNote. We will be accepting...

The WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM release includes an update to the Add Service Reference behavior in Visual Studio. For most project types that target .NET Framework 4.0, this means that when you add a new service reference, you will automatically get assembly...

This post is the last in a series on Actions in WCF Data Services. The series was started with an example experience for defining actions (Part 1) and how IDataServiceActionProvider works (Part 2) . In this post we’ll go ahead and walk through a...

The roadmap for serialization formats We have been talking for a while about a more efficient format for JSON serialization. The new serialization format will be part of the OData v3 protocol, and we believe that the much-improved JSON format should be...

In this post we will explorer the IDataServiceActionProvider interface, which must be implemented to add Actions to a WCF Data Service. However if you are simply creating an OData Service and you can find an implementation of IDataServiceActionProvider...

If you read our last post on Actions you’ll know that Actions are now in both OData and WCF Data Services and that they are cool: “Actions will provide a way to inject behaviors into an otherwise data-centric model without confusing the...

I’m very pleased to announce the WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM release. You can download WCF Data Services 5.0 from here . This release includes several client and server features and libraries for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4. Below is a brief breakdown...

  I’m very excited to announce the release of OData T4 for C# Preview 1, for the October 2011 CTP of the next version of WCF Data Services libraries, with support for code generation of service operations. The goal of this T4 preview and subsequent...

This CTP of WCF Data Services adds support for geospatial data. The release allows use of all of the OData geospatial data types and the geo.distance() canonical function. This enables two key scenarios: Read and write geospatial data (all types supported...

“Actions will provide a way to inject behaviors into an otherwise data-centric model without confusing the data aspects of the model, while still staying true to the resource oriented underpinnings of OData." The October 2011 CTP of WCF Data Services...

This blog talks about a new feature delivered in the WCF Data Services October CTP that can be downloaded here . WCF Data Services’ latest CTP includes a new stand-alone library for working directly with OData. The library makes public some underpinnings...

One new feature in WCF Data Services October 2011 CTP   is Vocabularies. You can learn more about vocabularies and how they are supported in OData here . In a nutshell, a vocabulary is a namespace containing terms where each term is a named metadata...

    I’m very excited to announce the release of the October 2011 CTP of the next version of WCF Data Services libraries. This release includes libraries for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 with new client and server features in addition to those included...

  One of the most frequently requested features for OData is payload compression. We have added two events to DataServiceContext in the OData phone client included in the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 that enables you to work with compressed payloads: WritingRequest...

Microsoft recently released the developer preview of the next version Windows as well as a developer preview of Visual Studio 11 for building apps on the new version of Windows. Some of you may have noticed that the “New Item” template for...

We have just released a new drop of ODataLib and EdmLib on CodePlex as a shared source project. ODataLib is a library used for advanced OData serialization and deserialization scenarios, and EdmLib is a library used to manipulate entity data models. We...

Today we are releasing June CTP of the next version of the WCF Data Services libraries targeting.NET 4 and Silverlight 4.  Based on broad community feedback , in addition to features shipped as part of Oct 2010 CTP1 , I’m happy to announce that this...

Over the last few months, we have been hard at work on the datajs library, releasing four preview versions and working with web developers to fine-tune the library. Today, we’re proud to announce that the first version of datajs is now available for download...

  We are excited to announce that datajs version 0.0.4 is now available at http://datajs.codeplex.com/ . The latest release adds support for Reactive Extensions for Javascript (RxJs), forward and backwards cache filtering, extended metadata, simplified...