WCF Data Service Toolkit

The WCF Data Service toolkit is a set of WCF data services (odata. net), the purpose is to make it easier to build a WCF data service, support any odata services on the storage of data, without in-depth understanding of LINQ, of course, it is very necessary to have a deep understanding of LINQ.

It was born from some real-world services, such as Netflix, eBay, Facebook, Twitpic, and other public services. This toolkit has been used in existing products, it has been proved to have solved some interesting problems and played a significant role in the work.

Before using this toolkit, you need to know what problems this tool is used to solve, you should be looking for data that exposes non-relational database storage (EF + WCF data service can perfectly solve the data stored in relational database ), what do we mean when talking about Data Storage? You may think of the following scenarios:

• An XML file (or file)
• Existing Web APIs (or APIs)
• For a legacy database, you need to reshape the database structure rather than exposing it.
• The proprietary software system provides a stylish one-time data format.
• Cloud databases (such as SQL Server) and nosql (such as Windows azure table store)
• A csv file zipped together with a MySQL database
• A soap API combined with an in-memory cache
• A parchment scroll infused with Egyptian hieroglyphics

This toolkit also provides common tasks that every real-world odata service needs to face. You get support in the form of jsonp, output caching, URL sanitization, and so on, all of which are out-of-the-box. You can download it here or use nuget to query the "wcfdataservicestoolkit" Id.

Mix 11 session:

Odata roadmap: exposing any data source as an odata service http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/FRM16

Http://weblogs.asp.net/nmarun/archive/2011/05/23/wcf-data-services-toolkit-to-talk-to-any-database-using-getall-getone-save-remove-methods.aspx

Http://blogs.msdn.com/ B /astoriateam/archive/tags/wcf+data+services/