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OData Explorer One nice tool to use with OData is the OData Explorer . The OData Explorer is a tool that helps to explore OData feeds in a visual way and not by exploring the Atom/JSON responses. You can download the tool from here . Another way to use the tool is by going to the following link: http://Silverlight.net/ODataExplorer . OData Explorer Requirements The tool is a Silverlight 4 project. In order to use it you’ll have to answer these requirements: Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight 4 Developer...
Loading WCF Data Services Ajax Script Library Since I’ve given sessions about WCF Data Services in the past (when they were called ADO.NET Data Services ) I wanted to reuse some of the Ajax examples I showed for my coming OData session. One of the things that have been changed lately were the scripts to use when you want to make Ajax calls to your Data Service . So I downloaded the new scripts and saw that the names of the objects to use have been changed a little but their functionality remained...
Consuming OData Feed using Microsoft PowerPivot PowerPivot is a data analysis add-in for excel that brings to it computational power. It also helps “to create compelling self-service BI solutions, facilitates sharing and collaboration on user-generated BI solutions” (taken from the PowerPivot site). This post will help you to understand how to consume OData feed from PowerPivot in order to use the data the OData exposes. The OData Feed OData exposed feeds can be found in the http://www.odata.org...
Using Paging in WCF Data Services One of the mechanisms which were provided in WCF Data Services from the start was client side paging. In the new release of WCF Data Services we also get a server side paging and this will be addressed in this post. WCF Data Services Client Side Paging From the early days of WCF Data Services we could achieve paging on the client side using the $top and $skip query parameters. For example the following URI for a data service will bring the 11-20 courses which were...
OData Visualizer Extension Yesterday I wrote about VS2010 extension manager . One of the great extensions that you can download and use is the OData Visualizer . The OData Visualizer helps us to get a visual graph of the OData Protocol ’s types, properties, associations, and other aspects of the EDM which you get from an OData metadata endpoint. Installing OData Visualizer Installing the OData Visualizer is very easy. Go to your Extension Manager and search for OData Visualizer in the online gallery...