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WCF Data Services...

...enables the creation and consumption of REST-based data services for the web (formerly known as ADO.NET Data Services).

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WCF Data Services in .NET 4

In the .NET Framework 4, there have been significant enhancements in Data Services from our .NET 3.5 SP1 release. This release has focused on providing new client and server side features for data service developers including improved Data Binding, Projections, Server Driven Paging, Count and Enhanced Blob support as well as many other improvements. Read more about the future of Data Services.

WCF Data Services Highlights

Simplifying our n-tier development platform: making 3 things 1 thing
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) == your “one stop shop” for building services and n-tier applications. To formalize our direction in aligning these technologies, we’re making a few name changes in the .NET Framework 4 timeframe. ADO.NET Data Services will change its name slightly to be WCF Data Services and .NET RIA Services will be known as WCF RIA Services.
Breaking Down ‘Data Silos’ – The Open Data Protocol (OData)
Driven by the goal to enable simple data sharing across disparate data sources, today, at PDC, we are announcing the Open Data Protocol (OData). OData is an open protocol for sharing data that provides a way to break down data silos and increase the shared value of data by creating an ecosystem in which data consumers can interoperate with data producers in a way that is far more powerful than currently possible, enabling more applications to make sense of a broader set of data.
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 is the second tech preview release of the next version of ADO.NET Data Services. This release (v1.5) will target the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 & Silverlight 3 platforms and provide new client and server side features for data service developers.
Share your data across data sources & applications using Data Services
This week at the SharePoint conference, Pablo Castro will be announcing that the next version of SharePoint natively integrates with data services such that all SharePoint lists will be exposed as an ADO.NET Data Service. This means you can now program against SharePoint list data using all the VS tools and runtime client libraries (.NET, Silverlight, AJAX, Java, PHP, etc…) which support ADO.NET Data Services. Also, since the Data Service...
‘Restlet’ Java Framework Now with ADO.NET Data Services Support
Yesterday on the interoperability blog it was announced that Noelios Technologies is shipping a new version of the Restlet open source project (a lightweight REST framework for Java) that includes an extension for ADO.NET Data Services.

 

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WCF (ADO.NET) Data Services Team
Posts by various members of the WCF Data Services (formerly ADO.NET Data Services) team.

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Data Services Release Plan Update
We’ve heard a lot of feedback since we first discussed our plans to create v1.5 of Data Services (ht... Mehr
Wednesday, Nov 25 - dpblogs
Introducing the Microsoft Open Data Protocol Visualizer (CTP1)
1. Introduction The Open Data Protocol Visualizer for Visual Studio CTP1 (“the visualizer... Mehr
Tuesday, Nov 17 - dpblogs
Breaking Down ‘Data Silos’ – The Open Data Protocol (OData)
A few weeks ago we posted about steps we’ve been taking to enable a wide range of data sources (DB,... Mehr
Tuesday, Nov 17 - dpblogs
Simplifying our n-tier development platform: making 3 things 1 thing
As you’ve probably observed, we’ve been working hard over the past year or so to grow our applicatio... Mehr
Tuesday, Nov 17 - dpblogs

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Beth Massi
I am a Program Manager on the VS Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN and my blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi).

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