WCF Data Services Team Blog

TL;DR: You can now (legally) use our .NET OData client and ODataLib on Android and iOS. Backstory...

Date: 11/13/2013

The OData team has been working on updating the OData Validator tool to support the new JSON format...

Date: 10/27/2013

And now for some exciting news: you can finally use WCF Data Services with Entity Framework 6+!...

Date: 10/02/2013

Recently we released updated NuGet packages for WCF Data Services 5.6.0. You will need the updated...

Date: 08/26/2013

What are the Request and Response Pipeline configurations in WCF Data Services Client?In WCF Data...

Date: 07/26/2013

Today we are releasing updated NuGet packages and tooling for WCF Data Services 5.6.0. This is an...

Date: 06/28/2013

WCF Data Services 5.5.0 has officially been released! The 5.5.0 release will be another NuGet-only...

Date: 05/30/2013

It’s that time again: yesterday we uploaded an RC for the upcoming 5.5.0 release. The 5.5.0...

Date: 05/15/2013

Today we are releasing version 5.4.0 of WCF Data Services. As mentioned in the prerelease post, this...

Date: 04/02/2013

Recently we uploaded an RC for our upcoming 5.4.0 release. This release will be NuGet packages...

Date: 03/26/2013

Today we are releasing an updated version of the WCF Data Services NuGet packages and tools...

Date: 02/18/2013

Today we released an updated version of the WCF Data Services NuGet packages and tools installer....

Date: 01/31/2013

We’re pleased to announce that today we are releasing NuGet packages and a tools installer for...

Date: 12/17/2012

A couple of days ago we posted a new set of NuGet packages and today we posted a new tools installer...

Date: 12/07/2012

In this post, we will talk about how you can continue to consume OData v3 services after installing...

Date: 10/31/2012

OData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps is recently released to add support for consuming OData v3...

Date: 10/31/2012

Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone SDK 8.0 were just announced and we are pleased to announce that...

Date: 10/30/2012

What is the advisory?Microsoft just released Security Advisory 2749655, which addresses “an...

Date: 10/09/2012

Today we are releasing refreshed NuGet packages as well as an installer for WCF Data Services...

Date: 09/26/2012

We’re happy to announce the release of WCF Data Services 5.0.2.What’s in this...

Date: 08/29/2012

TL;DR: If you’re bin-deploying WCF Data Services you need to make sure that the .svc file...

Date: 08/29/2012

TL;DR: OData does not currently support enum types, and WCF Data Services throws an unclear...

Date: 08/29/2012

Download the sample code In the previous blog post, we walked through the steps to build an...

Date: 08/23/2012

Download the sample code In this OData 101 we will build a Windows Store app that consumes and...

Date: 08/23/2012

We’re happy to announce that we’re ready for another public RC that includes a whole...

Date: 08/15/2012

TL;DRWe recently prereleased an updated OData Client T4 template to NuGet. The template will codegen...

Date: 07/02/2012

We have just pushed the official bits for 5.0.1 to NuGet and should be releasing an updated MSI...

Date: 05/18/2012

Today we are releasing an updated EULA for WCF Data Services. Effective as of WCF Data Services...

Date: 05/17/2012

We recently posted about trying to release WCF Data Services more frequently, and some of the...

Date: 05/17/2012

Like other teams at Microsoft, WCF Data Services has been working toward a goal of more frequent...

Date: 05/07/2012

Less than two weeks ago, we released WCF Data Services 5.0.0. Today, we are releasing 5.1.0-rc as a...

Date: 04/20/2012

We recently put together a document that contains some of our thinking about JSON light as well as a...

Date: 04/17/2012

The WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM release includes an update to the Add Service Reference behavior in...

Date: 04/17/2012

This post is the last in a series on Actions in WCF Data Services. The series was started with an...

Date: 04/12/2012

The roadmap for serialization formatsWe have been talking for a while about a more efficient format...

Date: 04/11/2012

In this post we will explorer the IDataServiceActionProvider interface, which must be implemented to...

Date: 04/11/2012

If you read our last post on Actions you’ll know that Actions are now in both OData and WCF...

Date: 04/10/2012

I’m very pleased to announce the WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM release. You can download WCF Data...

Date: 04/09/2012

I’m very excited to announce the release of OData T4 for C# Preview 1, for the October 2011...

Date: 01/19/2012

This CTP of WCF Data Services adds support for geospatial data. The release allows use of all of the...

Date: 10/17/2011

“Actions will provide a way to inject behaviors into an otherwise data-centric model without...

Date: 10/17/2011

This blog talks about a new feature delivered in the WCF Data Services October CTP that can be...

Date: 10/14/2011

Update (6/4/2012): This post is updated to reflect the few changes that were made to the...

Date: 10/13/2011

I’m very excited to announce the release of the October 2011 CTP of the next version of WCF...

Date: 10/13/2011

One of the most frequently requested features for OData is payload compression. We have added two...

Date: 10/04/2011

Microsoft recently released the developer preview of the next version Windows as well as a developer...

Date: 09/15/2011

We have just released a new drop of ODataLib and EdmLib on CodePlex as a shared source project....

Date: 09/02/2011

Today we are releasing June CTP of the next version of the WCF Data Services libraries targeting.NET...

Date: 06/30/2011

Over the last few months, we have been hard at work on the datajs library, releasing four preview...

Date: 06/29/2011

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