Summary

In this Lab, you have learnt what Open Data is and how to consume it from .NET applications. You also learnt what the Open Data Government Initiative is. It was demonstrated how to build applications that consume Open Data from different sources, for example a local database and a database on the clouds. Then, you have seen how to use the PowerPivot add-in for Microsoft Excel 2010 that reads and organize the OData data to perform analysis on it. And finally, you used the PHP Toolkit to create a proxy class for an OData service and use it in a seamless way.