Working with OData EDM Model

In the previous post we’ve seen how to enable OData support on existing ASP.NET Core Web API application. In this post wil will configure the OData Entity Data Model.

Enable OData on you WebAPI project

Let’s see how easy it is to enable OData on your existing ASP.NET Core WebAPI project.

Support for All()/Any() in WCF Data Services 5.0

9th of April 2012 the new version of WCF Data Services was released with number 5.0 and support for V3 OData protocol. You can download this version from here.

You can read more about all new features added to this release of Data Services on WCF Data Services Team Blog

Practical differences between ASP.NET Web API and WCF Data Services

In this post I would like to point out the main practical differences between ASP.NET Web API and WCF Data Services (OData). For those who does not yet know too much about Web API there is a lot of articles and tutorial about this topic on the net. The starting point is of course Microsoft ASP.NET team site which provides all related information and a bunch of tutorials. Concer…

WCF Data Services performance

The main benefit of using WCF Data Services (formerly ADO.NET Data Services, codename "Astoria) is that this is interoperable, which means it can be accessed from clients created in different technologies. Moreover standard WCF services offers the only exposed set of methods. Data Services, as implementation of OData protocol, offers the Resource to be queried and altered …

Application communication ways – WCF Data Services with EF Code First, WPF and WP7

Let’s assume there is an application database and the various client applications developed in Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and ASP.NET MVC 3. The database is either MS SQL Server or MS SQL Server CE. Now the potential customer may use one or many of these applications/platforms so the connections to the database must be performed from all of these clients.
The following scenarios are considered. I tried to list some points that should be considered when choosing particular connection approach. The pictures represents the general architecture of the approach.