I've just published a some code samples that show how to build a Silverlight client for the OData Service for SQL Azure , and how to build a service that validates Secure Web Tokens (SWTs) issued by AppFabric Access Control. For more information about the client, see my earlier post about Silverlight...

As described in my previous post , I've just finished building some Silverlight clients and a portal for the new OData service for SQL Azure using AppFabric Access Control (ACS) . In the process, I ran into a few issues worth documenting. Hello, World! Before we get to harder problems, let’s make...

[Created - April 16, 2010] [Updated - October 5, 2010 - Revised text and URIs to refer to ACS production, since ACS Labs is now running ACS v2.] Looking for a way to expose data in SQL Azure to web clients using simple REST based APIs? If so, life just got easier. Over the last few weeks, I...