Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 2 ) : Silverlight Feeds

Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 2 )

by mbcrump via Michael Crump on 3/28/2011 2:36:03 PM

This article is Part 2 of the series “Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application.”

Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 1) – Creating our first OData Data Source and querying data through the web browser and LinqPad.
Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 2 ) – Consuming OData in a Silverlight Application.
Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 3) – Consuming OData in a Windows Phone 7 Application.

To refresh your memory on what OData is:

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is simply an open web protocol for querying and updating data. It allows for the consumer to query the datasource (usually over HTTP) and retrieve the results in Atom, JSON or plain XML format, including pagination, ordering or filtering of the data.

To recap what we learned in the previous section:

We learned how you would produce an OData Data Source starting from File->New Project and selecting empty ASP.NET Application.
We generated a SQL Compact 4 Edition DB and populated it with data.
We created our Entity Framework 4 Model and OData Data Service.
Finally, we learned about basic sorting and filtering of the OData Data Source using the web browser and a free utility called LinqPAD.

In this article, I am going to show you how to consume an OData Data Source using Silverlight 4. In the third and final part of the series, we will consume the data using Windows Phone 7. Read the complete series of articles to have a deep understanding of OData and how you may use it in your own applications.
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