October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
Content preview from ASP.NET 4 Unleashed
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Summary
In this chapter you learned a little bit about WCF Data Services and the OData protocol. There are countless strategies for getting data in and out of your ASP.NET application ranging from traditional raw SQL access to service-based data access such as WCF Data Services.
WCF Data Services provide developers with a platform-independent way of querying and manipulating data without needing to know the specifics of the underlying schema or even the underlying data store.
Whether you choose to access a WCF Data Service using a raw data context, a generated data context wrapper, or even through a raw HTTP request, these services provide incredible value and can dramatically increase productivity, code reuse, and even scalability of distributed ...