Writing...Data Services

Coding and writing about OData and now Windows Azure Mobile Services...

Introducing Mobile Services—A Quick Start to Windows Store Apps with Windows Azure

For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that I am very interested in the nexus of...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 08/28/2012

Windows Azure Storage: SQL Database versus Table Storage

I wrote an article for Windows Azure a while back called Guidance for OData in Windows Azure, where...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2012

Recent Goings on in OData and WCF Data Services

Sorry the blog’s been quiet for so long…I’ve been working on some new stuff that’s not strictly...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 07/12/2012

Upgrading WCF Data Services Projects to WCF Data Services 5.0

Now that WCF Data Services 5.0 has been shipped with support for OData v3, it’s time to start...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 04/16/2012

Blast from the Past: Great Post on Using the Object Cache on the Client

In the course of trying to answer a customer question on how to leverage the WCF Data Services...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 03/01/2012

More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations

I’ve long missed support for calling service operations by using the proxy client...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 01/30/2012

New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database

If you recall from my previous post Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 1), I had...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 01/25/2012

New Windows Azure Guidance Topics Published

Just a quick post to let everyone know that we have just published a new set of Windows Azure...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 12/12/2011

Storing Complex Types, Binary Resources, and Other Tricky Things

-or- Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 2) In my previous post in this series, I...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/17/2011

Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 1)

or My First T4 Template This is the first blog post in a new series that focuses on my work to...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/14/2011

Future Improvements for the PASS Event Browser App

-or- Inside the PASS Event Browser for Windows Phone (Part 3) OK, and now for the final installment...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/03/2011

Publishing My First Windows Phone App to the Marketplace

-or- Inside the PASS Event Browser for Windows Phone (Part 2) OK, so here is the second part of what...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2011

Designing My First (Public) Windows Phone App

-or- Inside the PASS Event Browser for Windows Phone (Part 1) Now that I have completed the first...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2011

Introducing the PASS Event Browser App for Windows Phone

Well, I was trying to get a new Windows Phone application created, certified, and up on Marketplace...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2011

OData Improvements for Windows Phone 7.5 (“Mango”)…

…in the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 The OData team has made many significant improvements to the...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 09/27/2011

WCF Data Services October 2011 CTP Now Available

Hopefully, by now folks have seen the official announcement about the release of the WCF Data...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 09/27/2011

OData Quickstart for Windows Phone Updated—Now with VB!

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it here on my blog yet or not, but the forthcoming...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 09/26/2011

Some Resources for OData and Azure

With the rapidly growing popularity of the Windows Azure Platform and Microsoft’s Cloud Services...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2011

EF 4.1 Code First and WCF Data Services Part 2: Service Operation Considerations

Note: The information provided in this post is now maintained in the TechNet Wiki topic: Using...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 08/27/2011

Uploading Data to a Service Operation

When you upload data using HTTP, you typically include the data being uploaded in the body of the...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 07/05/2011

Entity Framework 4.1: Code First and WCF Data Services

Note: The information provided in this post is now maintained in the TechNet Wiki topic: Using...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 06/15/2011

Calling Service Operations Using POST

As you may know, OData enables you to define service operations that can be invoked by using either...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 06/08/2011

New OData Tombstoning Behavior in Mango

As I mentioned in my previous post OData Updates in Windows Phone “Mango”, new methods...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 05/31/2011

OData Updates in Windows Phone “Mango”

Today, the Windows Phone team announced the next version of Windows Phone, code-named...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 05/24/2011

New Resources for OData, Streaming, and Windows Phone

I’ve just posted a fairly lengthy blog post on the WCF Data Services team blog that shows how to...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 05/17/2011

Revisited: Guidance on Binding Media Resource Streams to XAML Controls

In my previous post Binding Media Resource Streams to XAML Controls, I discussed a way to use a...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 05/09/2011

MSDN Data Services Developer Center Redesign—Lots of Videos

The WCF Data Service developer center has been redesigned; the purpose of this update is to provide...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 05/02/2011

Getting Entity Data into Your Web Application

A friend said to me the other day “so, now that I have all of my data modeled as entity data using...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 04/29/2011

Counting Entities in an OData Service

We love counting things, a census, and statistics are very popular. Of course, entities in a data...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 04/21/2011

A Wiki-Based Source for OData Content and Info

While I am (obviously) a big fan of the content on the Open Data Protocol (OData) that we produce...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 04/06/2011

Calling Service Operations from the WCF Data Services Client

There seems to be a bit of confusion around the support for and usage of OData service operations in...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 03/28/2011

When Should I Version My OData Service?

While researching an answer a forum post on versioning, I was digging into one of the v1 product...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 03/12/2011

March 2011 CTP of WCF Data Services for OData v3 is Live

There is a new CTP out for WCF Data Services (v3), which features the long awaited support for...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 03/09/2011

Handling Service Operation Exceptions

The guidance from this post has been added to the WCF Data Services Service Operations topic. In...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 03/06/2011

Getting JSON Out of WCF Data Services

I was working with Ralph and a few other folks in my team on an internal project that required us to...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 02/25/2011

A Tale of Two (Well Three) Databases

Matt Stroshane did a little historical investigation around here to discover the origins of the...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 02/18/2011

New Stuff in the OData World on CodePlex

If you are really into the Open Data Protocol (OData) and WCF Data Services (and you should be),...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 02/10/2011

Phani Describes His Experience Writing the OData Browser App for WP7

Since I helped him test his app before it went to Marketplace, I am enjoying reading Phani's...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 02/07/2011

Trying to Avoid Buffering the Entire BLOB in a WCF Data Service Client? Well You Can’t

I wrote a series of blog posts on the WCF Data Services team blog that walks you through the (fairly...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 02/07/2011

OData Browser Available for Windows Phone 7

Phani has written a nice WP7 app that enables you to browse an OData feed on your Windows phone. I...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 01/24/2011

Self-Hosting a WCF Data Service

I’ve seen several customers looking for an example of how to directly host a WCF Data Service...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 01/23/2011

Writing…Data Services: The Inaugural Post

Welcome to my new blog, which (to be clever) I am calling “Writing…Data...

Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 01/23/2011

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