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...

So , here you are trying to build an awesome OData client application in SL3 using the V.S 2010 RC’s just as amazing Multi-targeting support for Silverlight applications. You’ve downloaded the SL3 CTP3 assembly from here and unzipped the System.Data.Services.Client.dll file to a local folder c:\temp\SL3_CTP3_OData_Client ( your folder may vary ). Using a V2 feature in the client library , after adding...

When we put out the sources for the OData Explorer on the OData.org site , we broke something in the sources which prevent them from building on your machine. We will be updating the sources on the OData SDK link quickly once the work week begins . In the meantime , here are the four issues that need to be fixed for the sources to build on your machine Issue #1 : The dependency on the Silverlight...

Click here to download the source for this application System Requirements : 1. Windows Phone 7 Developer tools 2. The OData client library for Windows Phone 7. We start by running Visual Studio 2010 Express For Windows Phone which is installed as part of Windows Phone 7 Developer tools. Step Zero is to generate the client types for the netflix Odata Service using the DataSvcUtil.exe...

What is the OData Explorer ? As the name suggests, its a Silverlight application that can be installed in-browser and out of browser , and allows you to perform ad-hoc and guided queries across a given OData Service. Where can I get the sources for the OData Explorer ? In the “OData SDK - Sample Code” section of http://www.odata.org/developers/odata-sdk The Service I am browsing to doesn’t have a ClientAccessPolicy...

Yep , we now have open positions for a few testers who get to work on the next generation of Data Protocols. Some advantages of working on the team : 1. You get to work with Pablo Castro 2. We have annual ski events which are always fun 3. The team is filled with some of the smartest people you’ll come to know 4.  You get to own and deliver key components of the Astoria runtime while learning...

While developing an application that spans multiple tiers , it is important that you be able to flow error information through the tiers without losing any context or details in the tiers. With ADO.NET Data Services , we have an error contract which guarantees that all errors thrown from the Data Service , wrapped inside a DataServiceException , will be represented in a standard way on the wire when...

The new Java client joins a growing family of clients for ADO.NET Data Services, which include: Ajax , Silverlight , .Net FX , Dynamic Data , PHP . Here’s some documentation about the Java client http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.0/13-restlet/28-restlet/287-restlet.html .

Click here to download sample application Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client library in x-domain and out of browser scenarios – II (Forms Authentication) In this blog post, we will talk about using the Silverlight Client Library against a Data Service that is secured with Asp.Net Forms Authentication In short, the whole process of authenticating against a Forms Authentication protected...

Setup PHP on your windows machine Setup the PHP Toolkit Setting up the PHP samples on IIS Running the sample ADO.NET Data Services PHP Sample Applications Walkthrough Setup PHP on your windows machine The following steps show you how to setup your windows machine to host PHP applications. We will be talking about hosting the only supported ( by MS Support ) PHP CGI application on IIS . Using FastCGI...

The first in my two part blog posts about the new Silverlight Client Library we released in CTP2 is up on the team blog. Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client in x-domain and out of browser scenarios – I Stay tuned to the team blog for the the second part which talks about using the client library X-Domain and Out Of Browser to access a data service which is authenticated with Forms...