It is a perfectly normal scenario for claims to be optional in a token. For example, a SAML assertion may contain the mandatory claims: http://www.contoso.com/claims/givenname http://www.contoso.com/claims/surname and optionally the claim: http://www...

This article is part of a series: Understanding and Using OData (1 of 4) OData Publication (2 of 4) Analysing OData Feeds (3 of 4) Creating a Windows Phone 7 OData Client Application (4 of 4) – This article Hopefully these articles will show you how to...

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This article is part of a series: Understanding and Using OData (1 of 4) OData Publication (2 of 4) Analysing OData Feeds (3 of 4) – This article Creating a Windows Phone 7 OData Client Application (4 of 4) Hopefully these articles...

This article is part of a series: Understanding and Using OData (1 of 4) OData Publication (2 of 4) – This article Analysing OData Feeds (3 of 4) Creating a Windows Phone 7 OData Client Application (4 of 4) Hopefully these articles...

The first time I came across the Open Data Protocol (OData) was an article about Project Astoria by Pablo Castro in The Architecture Journal back in 2007. At the time I thought that it was probably just another peripheral technology that I *had to* understand...