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Writing...Data Services
OData on Windows 8: Part 2—The OData Client Library for Metro
Posted
1 month ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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In the previous post Running WCF Data Services on Windows 8 Consumer Preview- Part 1 , I described running WCF Data Services on the Windows 8 desktop…but what I have really been wanting to do is write a Win8 Metro style app that consumes an OData feed...
Writing...Data Services
Upgrading WCF Data Services Projects to WCF Data Services 5.0
Posted
1 month ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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Now that WCF Data Services 5.0 has been shipped with support for OData v3, it’s time to start updating existing applications to take advantage of some of the new features of OData v3. For a complete list of new OData v3 features that are supported in...
Writing...Data Services
My Favorite Things in OData v3 and WCF Data Services 5.0
Posted
1 month ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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Great news… WCF Data Services 5.0 was released today! This new product release provides client and server support for OData v3 for the .NET Framework and Silverlight. Previous versions of WCF Data Services were actually part of the .NET Framework...
Writing...Data Services
Running WCF Data Services on Windows 8 Consumer Preview: Part 1
Posted
2 months ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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Windows 8 Desktop I have a Samsung Slate 7, which is the device that was given to the //Build/ conference attendees to run the developer preview of Windows 8 to best demonstrate the new Metro interface. However, I ended up waiting for the Consumer...
Writing...Data Services
Blast from the Past: Great Post on Using the Object Cache on the Client
Posted
3 months ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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In the course of trying to answer a customer question on how to leverage the WCF Data Services client for caching, I came across a great blog post on the subject—which I had almost completely forgotten about: Working with Local Entities in Astoria Client...
Writing...Data Services
More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations
Posted
4 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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I’ve long missed support for calling service operations by using the proxy client code-generated by WCF Data Services, and I’ve described some workarounds in the post Calling Service Operations from the WCF Data Services Client . This is why...
Writing...Data Services
New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database
Posted
4 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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If you recall from my previous post Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 1) , I had written a T4 template for my Windows Phone 7.5 (“Mango”) project to generate a proxy client needed to access both an OData service and local database...
Writing...Data Services
New Windows Azure Guidance Topics Published
Posted
5 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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Just a quick post to let everyone know that we have just published a new set of Windows Azure prescriptive guidance topics for developers: Windows Azure Developer Guidance This release includes two guidance topics I wrote: Guidance for OData in Windows...
Writing...Data Services
Dealing with Binary Resource Streams and Tombstoning
Posted
6 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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-or- Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 3) If you have been following this series , you know that I have been demonstrating a way to persist data from an OData feed to a local Windows Phone (“Mango”) device. Just to refresh, here are...
Writing...Data Services
Storing Complex Types, Binary Resources, and Other Tricky Things
Posted
6 months ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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-or- Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 2) In my previous post in this series, I described how to use a T4 template in Visual Studio to generate a hybrid proxy that supports both OData feeds and local database storage. There were also...
Writing...Data Services
Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 1)
Posted
6 months ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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or My First T4 Template This is the first blog post in a new series that focuses on my work to develop prescriptive guidance for synchronizing clients with cloud services—more specifically, how to best create and maintain a local cache of...
Writing...Data Services
Future Improvements for the PASS Event Browser App
Posted
6 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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-or- Inside the PASS Event Browser for Windows Phone (Part 3) OK, and now for the final installment of the series about my PASS Event Browser app . Improvements in v2.0 As I am writing this post, I have just submitted v2.0 of the PASS Events Browser,...
Writing...Data Services
Publishing My First Windows Phone App to the Marketplace
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7 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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-or- Inside the PASS Event Browser for Windows Phone (Part 2) OK, so here is the second part of what has turned out to be a very long blog post about my PASS Events Browser app for Windows Phone 7.5 (“Mango”). In the previous post , I covered the technical...
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Designing My First (Public) Windows Phone App
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7 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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-or- Inside the PASS Event Browser for Windows Phone (Part 1) Now that I have completed the first update to my PASS Event Browser app for Windows Phone 7.5 , I thought it might be helpful for me to share some of my experiences in this process—at...
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Introducing the PASS Event Browser App for Windows Phone
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7 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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Well, I was trying to get a new Windows Phone application created, certified, and up on Marketplace in time for the big PASS Summit 2011 this past week, but sadly, the timing just didn't work out right. Note : I discovered that it can easily...
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OData Improvements for Windows Phone 7.5 (“Mango”)…
Posted
8 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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…in the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 The OData team has made many significant improvements to the client library for Windows Phone 7.5 (formerly code-named “Mango”), which now ships in the Windows Phone SDK 7.1. Frankly, there is so much...
Writing...Data Services
WCF Data Services October 2011 CTP Now Available
Posted
8 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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Hopefully, by now folks have seen the official announcement about the release of the WCF Data Services October 2011 CTP . This release includes a bunch of new "in progress" OData v3 features, such as actions , spatial data types and operations , and vocabularies...
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OData Quickstart for Windows Phone Updated—Now with VB!
Posted
8 months ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
1
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I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it here on my blog yet or not, but the forthcoming release of Windows Phone 7.5 (“Mango”) and the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 features huge improvements for consuming OData feeds. This means that, in Mango...
Writing...Data Services
Creating “Cool Looking” Windows Phone Apps
Posted
8 months ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
1
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So far, I’ve written several Window Phone 7 apps, including the OData and Windows Phone quickstart , a Northwind-based app for my MVVM walkthrough , and a couple of others—mostly consuming (as you might guess) OData. Since I created these...
Writing...Data Services
Some Resources for OData and Azure
Posted
8 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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With the rapidly growing popularity of the Windows Azure Platform and Microsoft’s Cloud Services offerings, I thought it a good idea to put up a quick post about where you can find out about publishing OData services to the Azure cloud, especially since...
Writing...Data Services
EF 4.1 Code First and WCF Data Services Part 2: Service Operation Considerations
Posted
9 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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Note: The information provided in this post is now maintained in the TechNet Wiki topic: Using Entity Framework 4.1 Code First with WCF Data Services . In my previous post ( Entity Framework 4.1: Code First and WCF Data Services ), I demonstrated...
Writing...Data Services
Uploading Data to a Service Operation
Posted
10 months ago
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Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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When you upload data using HTTP, you typically include the data being uploaded in the body of the POST request. However, service operations in the Open Data Protocol (OData) work a bit differently, in that input to a service operation may only be passed...
Writing...Data Services
Entity Framework 4.1: Code First and WCF Data Services
Posted
11 months ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
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Note: The information provided in this post is now maintained in the TechNet Wiki topic: Using Entity Framework 4.1 Code First with WCF Data Services . Now that Entity Framework 4.1 is released, I decided that it was past-time for me to try...
Writing...Data Services
Calling Service Operations Using POST
Posted
11 months ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
5
Comments
As you may know, OData enables you to define service operations that can be invoked by using either GET or POST requests. The topic Service Operations (WCF Data Services) shows how to define both kinds of service operations using WCF Data Services. Consider...
Writing...Data Services
New OData Tombstoning Behavior in Mango
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Glenn Gailey [MSFT]
6
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As I mentioned in my previous post OData Updates in Windows Phone “Mango” , new methods have been added to the DataServiceState class that improve performance and functionality when storing client state. You can now serialize nested binding...
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