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

Download Sample Application What is this ? How do I use this in my applications ? Cool, I am also interested in learning how this was built 2. What is this ? An “Auto-paging Enumerable” is an IEnumerable implementation that allows the application to automatically fetch the next page of results if the current page of results is enumerated and the application wants more. By “Smart”, we...

Install Silverlight 4 RTM Explore the latest OData Explorer release. As part of the update, we fixed a couple of bugs and added a couple of more features. Here’s a rundown of the new features we added .   1.Sorting           2.Projections 3.Integration with Public Live OData Service list from OData.org                 ...

Download Sample Application Server Side What is SDP ? Design notes Blog post , Channel 9 video Enabling SDP on the server. Setting Server-side paging limits in InitializeService. How to detect if a set is paged from the server-side. How QueryInterceptors affect the next link Uri. Navigating the next link Uri in the browser Client Side SDP and DataServiceCollection APIs SDP and QueryOperationResponse...

Seeing as it is that Silverlight 4 RTM just went live , You should see an error message that says that the application is written for an obsolete version of Silverlight. We are working on updating the explorer to SL 4 RTM. Please bear with us while we update the sources and go through some bug fixes for the RTM version of the explorer.

Here's a minimal checklist to make sure your OData Service is available to a maximum number of clients and very functional out of the box . I'll add more items to this list as we go along. Allow Silverlight clients to access your data. Silverlight applications running on a domain other than the one the Data Service is hosted on require a ClientAccessPolicy.xml file at the root of the webserver. Without...