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[Tutorial & Sample] WCF Data Services Entity Framework Provider is updated with WCF Data Service 5.6.2

August 17, 2014 Aug 17, 2014 08/17/14
Zoe Luo
After WCF Data Services Entity Framework Provider version 1.0.0-alpha2 was released, we got lots of valuable feedbacks from customers. Recently we summarized all the feedbacks and fixed the most critical bugs reported. Now we are happy to announce the release of WCF Data Services Entity Framework Provider 1.0.0-beta2 (Below using EF6 Provider ...

[Announcement] ODataLib 6.6.0 Release

August 1, 2014 Aug 1, 2014 08/1/14
LeoHu1
We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.6.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code oncodeplex (please read the git history for the v6.6.0 code info and all previous version). Detailed release notes are listed below. Bug Fix New Features   Call to Action You and your team ...

[Tutorial & Sample] Using Unsigned Integers in OData

July 23, 2014 Jul 23, 2014 07/23/14
LewisCheng
Unsigned integers can be useful in many ways, such as representing data sizes, resource handles and so on. Though OData V4 only supports signed integer natively, the protocol offers a flexible way called type definition to allow users to ‘define’ unsigned integer types themselves. As an example, we know that any UInt16 integer can be ...

[Tutorial & Sample] Open complex type step by step with Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0

July 20, 2014 Jul 20, 2014 07/20/14
Sam Xu
Introduction Recently, Microsoft officially announced Web API 2.2 for OData v4 via the blog post Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.2, Web API 2.2 and Web Pages 3.2. In this release, a new feature named open complex type is introduced. As the ODL v4 spec says: Open complex types are keyless named structured types consisting of a set ...

[Tutorial & Sample] Client Delayed Query

July 9, 2014 Jul 9, 2014 07/9/14
Junlin Zheng
In OData Client 6.5.0, together with OData Client Code Generator 2.0.0, we have improved the user experience on the client side by introducing delayed query into it. This feature enables valid compositions as many as you want when building a query in client, getting all parts into one request URL and sending it out when you get it ready. ...

[Announcement] OData Client Code Generator 2.0.0 release

July 8, 2014 Jul 8, 2014 07/8/14
Yi Ding - MSFT
We are happy to announce that the OData Client Code Generator is released and available on Visual Studio Gallery. In this release, we focused on lighting up more OData features and the usability of the generated APIs while preserving the most consistency with the former version. Following is the release notes: Improvements of this OData ...

[Tutorial & Sample] Using ODataUriParser for OData V4

July 4, 2014 Jul 4, 2014 07/4/14
Karata Liu
Background This post is intended to guide you through the UriParser for OData V4, which is released within ODataLib V6.0 and later. You may have already read the following posts about OData UriParser in ODataLib V5.x: Some parts of the articles still apply to V4 UriParser, such as introduction for ODataPath and QueryNode ...

[Announcement] ODataLib 6.5.0 Release

July 3, 2014 Jul 3, 2014 07/3/14
LeoHu1
We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.5.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code oncodeplex (please read the git history for the v6.5.0 code info and all previous version). Detailed release notes are listed below. Bug Fix New Features A type definition defines a specialization of ...

[Tutorial & Sample] Refering when Constructing EDM Model

June 30, 2014 Jun 30, 2014 06/30/14
Liang Wang [MSFT]
Introduction EDM model plays a very important role in OData. When you want to use OData, the first thing should be constructing an EDM model. Previously, you need to build a complete EDM model, which means all types, terms, operations used in an EDM model should be declared in itself. If there are some elements in an existing model (CSDL), ...

[Announcement] ODataLib 6.4.0 Release

June 24, 2014 Jun 24, 2014 06/24/14
LeoHu1
We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.4.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code oncodeplex (please read the git history for the v6.4.0 code info and all previous version). Detailed release notes are listed below. Bug Fix New Features   ODataLib now supports new aysnc API in ....