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Learning OData? MSDN and I Have the videos for you!
Url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ee720180
I recently recorded a couple of series of videos for MSDN's Data Dev Center to help people get up and running with OData. There are two series:
Architecting WP7 - Part 7 of 10: Data on the Wire(less)
In this (somewhat belated) part 6 of my Architecture for the Windows Phone 7, I want to talk about dealing with data across the wire (or lack of wire I guess). If you've missed the past parts of the series, you you can visit them here:
This is at the heart of the idea that the phone is one of those screens in '3 screens and the cloud'. The use-cases for using data are varied including:
Building AgiliTrain's Workshop Application for WP7
Now that the Windows Phone 7 Tools are fully released, I sit here waiting for the phones to be released. In the time between the tool release and the phones being released, I have some precious time to get my applications ready for release as well. While I am not building any mass-market applications (nope, no fart apps here); I am building a number of small applications that should show off some features of the phone.
While many of you have seen my Moon Phaser application, I wanted to do something that was more in line with a typical phone application so I built an app to review my company's training offerings. The goal was simple: allow users to see the classes we're giving and learn about the the classes (with hopes of signing up ;).
Using OData with Windows Phone 7 SDK Beta
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/wp7odatamovies.zip
While I was giving my OData talk, someone asked about consuming OData on the WP7 phone. I had done this on the CTP earlier, but hadn't tried it during the beta. So I figured I'd look into it today. While this is still pretty easy to do, the tooling still isn't in place. This means that you can't simply do an "Add Service Reference" to a Windows Phone 7 project. Instead you have to follow these steps:
DevLink Talks - Slides and Code
Url: http://devlink.net
UPDATE, Removed Embedded Slides for simply links as the Flash apps where killing my site perf.
SQL Azure's OData Support
I've ported my XBoxGames Database (see this blog article for copies of the .mdf files) to SQL Azure and added OData support. You can find the feed here:
https://odata.sqlazurelabs.com/OData.svc/v0.1/w9hratewlg/XBoxGames
WCF Data Services and jQuery
Url: http://wilderminds.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/dataservicejque...
I'd recently been asked by Chris Sells to help him with a simple WCF Data Services/jQuery example so I thought I'd share it via my blog as well. The basic idea is to use jQuery's AJAX functionality to retrieve JSON instead of the usual OData and consume it on a web page.
The example I decided on using is to expose the XBox database with paging. I am not doing any of the niceties like getting result counts to show a real navigation bar. Instead this is quick and dirty to simply do "next" and "prev" and use WCF Data Service's URI API to retrieve data.