-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,...

-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...

-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...

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...

…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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Today, the Windows Phone team announced the next version of Windows Phone, code-named “Mango.” You can read more about Mango in this morning’s blog post from the Windows Phone team . There is also a developer tools update for this Mango...

I’ve just posted a fairly lengthy blog post on the WCF Data Services team blog that shows how to consume a media resource stream from an OData service in a Windows Phone 7 application: Accessing an OData Media Resource Stream from a Windows Phone 7 Application...

In my previous post Binding Media Resource Streams to XAML Controls , I discussed a way to use a value converter to get the read stream of the media resource of an a media link entry that is bound to a control. The purpose of this was to bind a XAML Image...

The WCF Data Service developer center has been redesigned; the purpose of this update is to provide a much more hands-on experience and to make it easier to get started with OData services, and with WCF Data Services in particular. This means, in part...

A friend said to me the other day “so, now that I have all of my data modeled as entity data using the Entity Framework, how do I get it into my web application?” While I will admit to not being an ASP.NET expert (despite having written some of the EntityDataSource...

We love counting things, a census, and statistics are very popular. Of course, entities in a data service that support the Open Data Protocol (OData) are no different. For example, having a count of the total numbers of entities that you are returning...

While I am (obviously) a big fan of the content on the Open Data Protocol (OData) that we produce (including the WCF Data Services content , Silverlight and Windows Phone topics, and of course the OData.org site ), I am always excited to see other folks...

There seems to be a bit of confusion around the support for and usage of OData service operations in the WCF Data Services client library . Service operations are exposed in the data service metadata returned by an OData service. (If you have no idea...

I came across an interesting problem as I was working on the Windows Phone 7 client code for my next installment of the WCF Data Services blog post series on streaming . In this series, I have been using a property on my PhotoInfo entity named StreamUri...

While researching an answer a forum post on versioning, I was digging into one of the v1 product specs and found a couple of very useful logical flowcharts that describe how to handle data service versioning scenarios. Sadly, this information has yet...

There is a new CTP out for WCF Data Services (v3), which features the long awaited support for properties on derived types (yay!) You can get it from here . The following proposed OData version 3.0 functionality is also supported by WCF Data Services...