ADO.Net Data Service-WCF Data Services

Introduction

Microsoft .net framework 4 have usefull enhancements in there Data-services model After the WCf For quite long Microsoft .net Providing such useful services fro client and server side features One of Most Beautful enhancements

.net is WCF Data Services (former "ADO.NET Data Services") whichImproved data binding ,Server side Paging ,Count and Enhanced Blob support.Wcf Data Service are allow to Create Open Data Protocol (OData) to expose and consume data over the Web or intranet by using the semantics of representational state transfer (REST).OData exposes data as resources that are addressed by URIs(uniform resource identifier).Data can accessed by Get,POst and other http varbs, Wcf DataServices

use Entity Data Model to Provide entity-relationship conventions. for more

Steps By Step Guide

Step 1:Create SilveLight Application using Visual Studio 2010

Step 2:Add new Database Unit Test

Step 3:Generate model from datasource using Visual Studio 2010

Step 4:Choice the connection for the datasource in wizard

Step 5:Select the tables to add data model

Step 6:Add WCF Data Service item to project

Step 7:Write code like below

Step 8:Code modication in visual studio 2010 and run

Step 9:Run application and look in broswer

Step 10:Consume the ADO.NET data service into the client.

Step 11:Add Gridview in client application and invoke the service.

Step 12:Place the gridview.

Step 13:Create instance to the WCF data service and bind the data to gridview.

Step 14:Build the client Aplication and run.

That's all see how is data render to client  using WCF data Service. i hope this is help to you all. 

Sample Project Source

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