I was working with Ralph and a few other folks in my team on an internal project that required us to pass an OData feed from our own Windows Azure-hosted WCF Data Service to Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket . In the process of doing this, I was reminded...

Matt Stroshane did a little historical investigation around here to discover the origins of the ubiquitous Microsoft sample databases (AdventureWorks, Northwind, and Pubs). The resulting narrative, which features the Northwind sample OData service , is...

I came across this interesting blog post by Alex van Beek the other day where he demonstrates how to reduce the size of the payload of MERGE requests to an OData service when using the WCF Data Services client. The OData protocol defines a HTTP MERGE...

If you are really into the Open Data Protocol (OData) and WCF Data Services (and you should be), there are a few cool new projects that just went up on CodePlex. WCF Data Services Toolkit This toolkit makes it easier to expose even more types of existing...

Since I helped him test his app before it went to Marketplace, I am enjoying reading Phani's assessment of building the OData Browser app for WP7 . http://blogs.msdn.com/b/phaniraj/archive/2011/02/07/lessons-learnt-building-the-windows-phone-odata...

I wrote a series of blog posts on the WCF Data Services team blog that walks you through the (fairly complicated) process of accessing BLOB data (such as media files, documents, anything too big to return in the feed) from an OData service as a stream...