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Hanselminutes Podcast 205 - Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro

March 17, 2010 Comment on this post [2] Posted in OData | Open Source | Podcast
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OData Logo My two-hundred-and-fifth podcast is up. Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services and OData - what's the difference and the real story? How does OData work and when should I use it? When do I use OData and when do I use WCF? Scott gets the scoop from the architect himself, Pablo Castro.

This week at Mix, OData.org was launched. There are currently consumer libraries like :

  • Javascript
  • PHP
  • Java
  • Windows Phone 7 Series
  • iPhone (Objective C)
  • .NET

Jon Galloway have even updated NerdDinner with its own OData feed that you can query! I like using LINQPad to query OData, but you can also use Excel and PowerPivot, do it online with the Silverlight-based OData Explorer or the Sesame OData Browser or just try it from your browser's address bar. Also, try querying Netflix! I'll be posting interesting OData code samples and Jon and I will be updating NerdDinner in the coming week or two.

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April 08, 2010 19:25
Online as a prefix to excel and really interesting. I just tried. thanks
April 12, 2010 1:33
Hi Scott, great podcast... But to be honest I am still a bit confused with wcf ... Probably because I have not touched wcf yet... I mean practically at work.. I am still using asp.net web services. I have recently started reading wcf though...

Anyways I have got two questions for you

- what's the Major difference between soap (web services) protocol and odata? And should We always prefer odata services or wcf services over asp.net web services for web applications, especially now when so many client side libraries are available for consuming odata services e.g JavaScript php etc.. Not sure about normal wcf services ( is it a replacement for web services ?)...

- secondly , you guys mentioned that odata services are useful for resource centric and normal wcf services are useful for operational centric . What do you actualy mean by this... I am a bit lost in terminologies.. Could you give some examples plz?

I know I need to read more on wcf to clear my concepts... Bit if you could elloborate a little it would be really useful

thanks
Nabeel

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