"Understanding OData v3 and WCF Data Services 5.x"

Table of Contents

• What is this Article About?
• What are OData, Atom, and AtomPub?
• REST vs. SOAP: The Design Decisions
• First look at OData Queries
  • Keywords
  • Formatting
  • OData Clients
• Working with OData via WCF Data Services

• Creating a WCF Data Service with POCOs
• Behind the Scenes
• Enabling JSON Format through WCF Message Inspector
• What about JSON light?
• JSON Light in WCF Data Services 5.2.0
• Extending Data Service with Service Operations and Interceptors
• Metadata, EDM, and CSDL
• Concurrency Updates with ETAG

Resources

What is this Article About?

This is not your typical “expose an entity framework model as a WCF Data Service” kind of article; in fact I deliberately omitted Entity Framework from this discussion. Now don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against EF, but you will find a lot of great articles on how to set up a WCF Data Service using EF as data source.

The discussion is around OData v3 and WCF Data Services 5.0 and 5.2. Of course there is no way I cover all new features or every API available, nor do I need so; I will point you to the resources where you can get all information you need. Instead my aim in this article is to discuss some of the topics that usually remain oblivious to the typical WCF Data Services developer.

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