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...