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What do you want to see added/changed in WCF Data Services?

September 10, 2010 Sep 10, 2010 09/10/10
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As we’ve posted a few times before on this blog the data services team is beginning to explore improvements and new features for our next release.  As part of this process, it’s critical that we hear your feedback, as it helps us ensure that what we build actually meets your requirements in real-world scenarios.  Today we’re ...

Data Services Streaming Provider Series-Part 2: Accessing a Media Resource Stream from the Client

September 8, 2010 Sep 8, 2010 09/8/10
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In this second post in the series on implementing a streaming data provider, we show how to use the WCF Data Services client library to access binary data exposed by an Open Data Protocol (OData) feed, as well as has how to upload binary data to the data service. For more information on the streaming provider, see the first blog post in this ...

Data Services Streaming Provider Series: Implementing a Streaming Provider (Part 1)

August 4, 2010 Aug 4, 2010 08/4/10
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The Open Data Protocol (OData) enables you to define data feeds that also make binary large object (BLOB) data, such as photos, videos, and documents, available to client applications that consume OData feeds. These BLOBs are not returned within the feed itself (for obvious serialization, memory consumption and performance reasons). Instead, ...

OData and Authentication – Part 6 – Custom Basic Authentication

July 21, 2010 Jul 21, 2010 07/21/10
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You might remember, from Part 5, that Basic Authentication is built-in to IIS. So why do we need ‘Custom’ Basic Authentication? Well if you are happy using windows users and passwords you don’t. That’s because the built-in Basic Authentication, uses the Basic Authentication protocol, to authenticate against the windows ...

Deploying an OData Service in Windows Azure

July 20, 2010 Jul 20, 2010 07/20/10
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Windows Azure and SQL Azure are the new Cloud service products from Microsoft. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you can take a database that is hosted in SQL Azure and expose it as OData in a rich way using WCF Data Services and Windows Azure. This walk-through requires that you have Visual Studio 2010 and both a Windows Azure ...

OData and Authentication – Part 5 – Custom HttpModules

July 19, 2010 Jul 19, 2010 07/19/10
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In the last post we saw how to add custom authentication inside your Data Service using the ProcessingRequest event. Unfortunately that approach means authentication is not integrated or shared with the rest of your website. Which means for all but the simplest scenarios a better approach is needed: HttpModules. HttpModules can do all sort of ...

Join the OData Mailing List

June 28, 2010 Jun 28, 2010 06/28/10
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Today we released an OData Mailing List.  This is the list to use if you have OData questions, comments on OData or want to discuss how OData should evolve over time.  To sign up to the list go here and follow the instructions provided.  The list is fully open so anyone can subscribe and participate.  Be sure to read the ...