An overview of OData
- The Open Data Protocol ﴾OData﴿ is a data access protocol for the web built on core protocols like HTTP and commonly accepted methodologies like REST for the web. - OData provides a uniform way to query and manipulate data sets through CRUD operations ﴾create, read, update, and delete﴿ . - Methods for serving OData : ~ Manually ~ WCF ~ WCF Data Services ~ MVC ~ Web API (the most convenient) - ASP.NET Web API supports both versions 3 & 4 of the protocol. - A v4 endpoint can run side-by-side with a v3 endpoint. - The new OData V4 libraries are in the assembly: System.Web.OData. System.Web.Http.OData are the V3 libraries - Web API OData does not require Entity Framework. Use any data-access layer that can translate database entities into models. - It includes features that make it much more ready for the enterprise environment, supporting: a service definition language ...