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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A couple of days ago we posted a new set of NuGet packages and today we posted a new tools installer for WCF Data Services 5.2.0-rc1. This prerelease integrates the UriParser from ODataLib Contrib and fixes a few bugs. What is in the prerelease This prerelease...

In this post, we will talk about how you can continue to consume OData v3 services after installing Windows Phone SDK 8.0. If you are a developer who is using WCF Data Services to produce OData v3 services in Visual Studio 2012 and also only installed...

OData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps is recently released to add support for consuming OData v3 services. You may  already have a Windows Phone 7.1 application that consumes OData  and want to update it to work with OData V3 services using...

Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone SDK 8.0 were just announced and we are pleased to announce that OData Client Tools for Windows Phone 8 is also now available from the download center. OData Client Tools for Windows Phone 8 brings OData V3 support to...

What is the advisory? Microsoft just released Security Advisory 2749655 , which addresses “an issue involving specific digital certificates that were generated by Microsoft without the proper timestamp attributes.” If you are using WCF Data Services 5...

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...

We’re happy to announce the release of WCF Data Services 5.0.2. What’s in this release This release contains a number of bug fixes: Fixes NuGet packages to have explicit version dependencies Fixes a bug where WCF Data Services client did not send the...

TL;DR: If you’re bin-deploying WCF Data Services you need to make sure that the .svc file contains the right version string (or no version string). The idea for this post originated from an email I received yesterday. The author of the email, George Tsiokos...

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...

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...

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...

We’re happy to announce that we’re ready for another public RC that includes a whole bunch of bug fixes. What is in the prerelease This prerelease contains a number of bug fixes: Fixes NuGet packages to have explicit version dependencies Fixes a bug where...

TL;DR We recently prereleased an updated OData Client T4 template to NuGet. The template will codegen classes for working with OData v3 services, but full support has not been added for all v3 features. What is the OData Client T4 template? The OData...

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...