This technology uses the OData protocol to transport data over the Internet using REST-ful paradigms. WCF Data Services was formerly known as ADO.NET Data Services and its code name, Astoria.
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WCF Data Services (OData) Vs ASP.NET Web API
I am designing a distributed application that will consist of RESTful services and a variety of clients (Silverlight, iOS, Windows Phone 7, etc). Right now I'm determining which technology I should ...
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Turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults (either from ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the <serviceDebug> configuration behavior) on the server
I have a WCF service that has been working perfectly, and something has changed and I don't know what.
I get this exception:
System.ServiceModel.FaultException: The server was unable to process ...
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How do I choose between WCF, REST, POX and RIA services for a new Silverlight application
There a lot of different ways a Silverlight application can connect back to it’ server. Including
WCF - Windows Communication Foundation
REST (see also)
ADO.NET Data Services (or is this just ...
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How to Improve WCF Data Services Performance
I'm new to WCF Data Services so I've been playing. After some initial tests I am disappointed by the performance of my test data service.
I realize that because a WCF DS is HTTP-based there is ...
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ADO.NET Data Services with Linq-to-SQL
I am encountering a weird error when using linq-to-sql with ado.net data services. I have a simple silverlight application that connects to a remote database. I first added the linq-to-sql class and ...
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WCF Data Service - How To Diagnose Request Error?
I have an application which will use WCF to serve up various chunks of data to clients. However, due to the size of some of the sets of data that will be returned (and that's because the client app ...
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WCF Data Services Security Options
What options are there for securing WCF Data Services? The open, RESTful nature of the services are extremely beneficial but I need to lock these services down so that only my Silverlight and WPF ...
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What problem is Microsoft trying to solve with all of these data access strategies?
There seems to be many different data access strategies coming out of Microsoft. There’s ‘classic’ ADO.NET, Linq2Sql, ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, ADO.NET Dynamic Data. I’m sure ...
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Resource not found for segment 'Property'
When using ADO.Net Data Services client to refresh an entity by calling the LoadProperty:
ctx.BeginLoadProperty(this, "Owner", (IAsyncResult ar) => ...
It throws an error on the server if the ...
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How to handle json DateTime returned from WCF Data Services (OData)
I believe I am missing something obvious here. When I request a JSON response from an OData service I get a different result for the DateTime properties than I do when I request XML. I'll use the ...
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Difference between WCF Web API and WCF Data Services
Can any one explain the difference between WCF Data Services and http://wcf.codeplex.com Wcf Web API?
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Problem rolling out ADO.Net Data Service application to IIS
I am adding a ADO.Net Data Service lookup feature to an existing web page. Everything works great when running from visual studio, but when I roll it out to IIS, I get the following error:
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Using enums in WCF Data Services
I'm trying to manually build a WCF Data Service using a POCO data model and I cannot figure out how to properly expose enum values. Assuming a simple model like:
public class Order
{
public int ID ...
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Can I use OData client code inside a Portable Class Library?
I'm trying to build a portable class library targeting .NET, Silverlight, Windows RT and Windows Phone that acts as an OData client. I'm using Visual Studio 2012.
When I created the service ...
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WCF REST vs. ADO.NET Data Services
Could someone compare and contrast on WCF Rest services vs. ADO.NET Data Services? What is the difference and when to use which?
Thanks,
Ray.
Edit: thanks to the first answer, just to give a bit ...
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