My new team ( https://www.hadooponazure.com/ ) works on making Windows Server & Windows Azure the best environment for hosting Hadoop. As one my new challenges, I’ve been tasked with building an editor / job manager to Apache Hive. Seen below is my first draft at providing a terminal for running and saving Hive Jobs using HQL. Please direct all comments/feedback to PhaniRaj AT Microsoft...

If you’re writing Windows Store applications and want to use the async goodness that the platform allows with your OData client applications, take a look at these extension methods that allow you to use the await and async keywords in your apps. Some useful links WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps RC Visual Studio Asynchronous Programming Downloads for Metro style app development  

This blog post outlines some key changes to the OData Explorer which should be published soon. Take a look below and let me know what you think.The overall theme is simplicity , we’ve removed a lot of superfluous cruft in the UI . Also, moving to OData Library and Edm Library has helped me get rid of pesky bugs that existed in the last version. Add new workspace window Browse collections...

What is it ? This bookmarklet is a simple javascript function that changes the contents of standard buttons on Facebook.com. It changes the "Like" button content to be "Can you Dig it?", unlike to "Stop Digging it", and Comment to "Holler!" How do I install this bookmarklet ? Step 1 : Right-click this link and select "Copy Link address", Bookmarklet link Step 2 : Open the bookmarklet manager...

The Source code for the sample app is available here ( Download ) You’ll need : 1. Windows 8 Consumer preview and developer tools 2. OData Client library preview for Windows 8 Metro ( Update: Visual Studio 2012 RC has been released and contains an updated version of these assemblies, along with fully-integrated support for Add Service Reference. Install the Ultimate, Professional, or Premium...

I've updated the site navigation to make it easier for my blog visitors to find useful links and quick answers to the questions they come here with. After analyzing the number of views on my blog posts, I've curated them into links in the left hand side under : Useful links for OData Server applications : a list of links for debugging/configuring your OData Server application. Useful links...

Hi all, I'm running a short survey to guage interest in an Excel 2007 plugin that reads OData feeds. Please take this short survey so that I can figure out which scenarios you want to target with this plugin. Survey link

Click here to download. GenerateDataServiceContext.tt generates a strongly-typed DataServiceContext type based on the service description. GenerateEntityTypes.tt generates the client-side proxies for entity types exposed by the OData service. GenerateViewModels.tt ( Silverlight Only ) generates viewmodels based on the entity type and provides some ease-of-use apis. More documentation coming soon.

One of the reasons for re-building the OData browser for Windows Phone was to experience first hand the issues our developers face when writing an app for the marketplace that uses the client library my team produces. This blog post describes what I learnt as a developer on the OData browser and what feedback the team received after this exercise. Disclaimer : I wrote a lot of the code for the browser...

Download it from the Zune marketplace by clicking this link Read inaugural blog post about it here

Since the company got me a Windows Phone 7 device and also paid for my developer account, I feel obligated to put an application for the market place out there. Hence. we have the OData browser for Windows Phone 7 . I am currently testing with a couple of brave beta testers and will be uploading this app to the market place at the End of this week, i.e. the 22nd of January 2011. Here are some screens...

Team blog post here : WCF Data Services Client Library and Windows Phone 7 – Next Steps And some sample code for more context. With the Linq pattern, here is what the code for downloading the first 10 customers would look like : DataServiceCollection < Customer > customerCollection = new DataServiceCollection < Customer >(Context); customerCollection.Load(Context.CreateQuery< Customer...

Download sample application and source here This blog post was written almost a year ago, but lethargy and constant revision has made me realize that good blog posts are hard to write. Background Nuts and Bolts Using this in your applications: Vote to get these features in the DataServiceCollection<TEntity> type Background When the DataGrid shipped...

Click here to download sample application As part of a series of blog posts about how to enhance the WCF Data Services development experience, I will be releasing some of the T4 templates that I use for generating common code. In this post, I will talk about augmenting the Server-side WCF Data Service by generating Query/Change Interceptors for all given entity sets present in a model. As this is ...

With the latest release of the Windows Phone tools, the OData sample Netflix application has also been updated. Here is where you get the latest Windows Phone Tools : Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta And here is where you get the latest OData sample application : ODataOnWinPhoneSample_July2010Beta.zip Original blog post here : Developing a Windows Phone 7 Application that consumes OData