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WCF Data Services...

...enables the creation and consumption of OData 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.

With the release of .NET Framework 4, the Data Services team is actively working on the next round of features and design. Read more about the future of Data Services.

WCF Data Services Highlights

Building an AtomPub Server Using WCF Data Services
Learn how to use the AtomPub protocol to pump up your blogs. Chris Sells includes a practical demonstration of mapping so you can expose a standard AtomPub service from a Web site and use Windows Live Writer to provide a rich editing experience against the service.
How We Used Data in GiveAQuiz.com
In this article, Shawn Wildermuth details how the new website, giveaquiz.com, was built using a variety of Microsoft data technologies: SQL Server 2008, Entity Framework 4, WCF Data Services 4, Visual Studio 2010's SQL Server Database Project, and SQL Server Reporting Services. This provides a full end-to-end demonstration of how these technologies come together and especially how to develop with and leverage Reporting Services.
Building Rich Internet Apps with the Open Data Protocol
See how you can build Rich Internet Applications that take advantage of the OData protocol to creatively interact with Silverlight, PowerPivot, SQL Server, SharePoint, the Windows Azure platform, “Dallas” and more.
OData with Scott Hanselman
A great talk on OData at the 7th Annual AZGroups.org event in Phoenix.
We're taking OData on the Road!
We have a series of free, day-long events we're doing around the world to show off the beauty and wonder that is the Open Data Protocol. In the morning we'll be showing you OData and in the afternoon we'll help you get your OData services up and running. Cities on the tour: New York, Chicago, Mountain View, Shanghai, Tokyo, Reading UK, and Paris. Visit the link above for schedule details, speakers, and registration.

 

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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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OData and Authentication – Part 8 – OAuth WRAP
OAuth WRAP is a claims based authentication protocol supported by the AppFabric Access Control (ACS)... more
Thursday, Aug 19 by dpblogs
Data Services Streaming Provider Series: Implementing a Streaming Provider (Part 1)
The Open Data Protocol (OData) enables you to define data feeds that also make binary large object (... more
Wednesday, Aug 4 by dpblogs
OData and Authentication – Part 7 – Forms Authentication
Our goal in this post is to re-use the Forms Authentication already in a website to secure a new Dat... more
Wednesday, Jul 21 by dpblogs
OData and Authentication – Part 6 – Custom Basic Authentication
You might remember, from Part 5, that Basic Authentication is built-in to IIS. So why do we need &l... more
Wednesday, Jul 21 by dpblogs

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Gil Fink
Gil Fink is an experienced .Net developer with wide knowledge in OOP and Design patterns. Gil is also a Microsoft MVP in the data platform development area. Worked in the past as .Net team leader in Netwise ,as a leading developer and consultant in SRL Group and as a senior consultant in E4D Solutions. Currently holding a position of consultant and .Net instructor in Sela Group.

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