Transcript Using OData to Build Great Customer Experiences on Any Device Mark Stafford Program Manager Microsoft Corporation.

Using OData to Build Great
Customer Experiences on
Any Device
Mark Stafford
Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Overview
What is OData?
OData vs WCF Data Services vs…
What’s new in WCF Data Services?
Demos
What is OData?
OData is a protocol
OData uses Web standards to enable data scenarios
OData has an ecosystem with many
Services (producers)
Clients (consumers)
SDKs
OData is a protocol
Resources are access via URLs
http://OData/OData.svc/Categories(1)/Products
http://OData/OData.svc/Products?$orderby=Rating,Categ
ory/Name desc
http://OData/OData.svc/Categories(1)/Products?$skip=2
HTTP Operations (GET, POST, etc) enable CRUD
Responses are in standard formats (Atom, JSON, etc)
OData uses Web Standards
Producers and consumers can be implemented for
many platforms
Technologies like jQuery can function as light clients
OData Producers
Microsoft (SharePoint, Dynamics)
IBM
SAP
Other Businesses (Netflix, StackOverflow)
Governments (US, Canada, UK)
OData Consumers
Web Browsers
Excel
Tableau
LinqPad
OData SDKs
.NET Framework
Silverlight
Javascript
Java
Ruby
Windows Phone 7
Objective-C
OData versus…
OData is the protocol
WCF Data Services is a comprehensive
implementation of OData
WCF RIA Services attempts to simplify client/server
development
What’s new?
Navigation properties on derived types (sort of)
Actions
Vocabularies
Spatial
ODataLib
Data Service Providers
Provider
Use If
Entity Framework Provider
Your data access layer uses EF
LINQ to SQL Provider
Your data access layer uses L2S
Reflection Provider
You have a fairly simple class model but
don’t use EF or L2S
Custom Provider
None of the other providers work
Custom Providers
Interface
Responsible For
IDataServiceMetadataProvider
Describes the Entity Data Model.
IDataServiceQueryProvider
Handles GET requests.
IDataServiceUpdateProvider
Optional. Handles PUT, POST and DELETE
requests.
IDataServicePagingProvider
Optional. Enables paging.
IDataServiceStreamProvider
Optional. Supports Media Link Entries.
demos!
Tourism + Coupon = Toupon
Where can I learn more?
http://odata.org
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astoriateam/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alexj/
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