Slidedeck from my 20 minute vendor session at Codemash 2.0.1.2

1. PRODUCE AN ODATA FEED
IN 10 MINUTES
Chris Woodruff

2. WHO AM I?
Chris Woodruff
 MVP, Data Platform
Development
 Microsoft Cloud Practice Lead,
Perficient, Inc.
 cwoodruff@live.com
 http://chriswoodruff.com
 http://deepfriedbytes.com
 twitter @cwoodruff
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3. About Perficient
Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving
clients throughout North America.
We help clients implement business-driven technology solutions that
integrate business processes, improve worker productivity, increase
customer loyalty and create a more agile enterprise to better respond
to new business opportunities.

4. Today, the tools for capturing
data both at the mega-scale
and at the milli-scale are just
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dreadful. After you have
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captured the data, you need
to curate it before you can
start doing any kind of data
analysis, and we lack good
tools for both data curation
and data analysis.

5. WHAT IS ODATA?

6. WHAT DOES ODATA GIVE ME AND MY
ORGANIZATION?
Empower Internal Power Users
Empower Existing and Future
Customers
Monetize Data for untapped Revenue

7. THE BASICS
• Feeds, which are Collections of typed
Entities
• OData services can expose Service
Operations
• OData services expose all these
constructs via URIs
• OData service may also expose a
Service Metadata Document

8. FULL SQL LIKE QUERY “LANGUAGE”
HTTP Command (Verb) SQL Command
GET SELECT
PUT UPDATE
POST INSERT
DELETE DELETE

9. WHERE CAN WE PRODUCE ODATA?

10. Create services
directly from Visual HTTP
Studio
Various data sources Hosting/HTTP listener
Entity Framework
Service Runtime
POCO
NHibernate IQueryable (+ IUpdatable)
Model-driven Data Access Layer
Structural description Entity
in Entity Data Model Framework/ POCO
Metadata shapes NHibernate
service
Relational
database
Other
sources

11. WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR WCF DATA
SERVICES?
Visual Studio 2010
SQL Server 2008 SP1
ASP.NET 4.0
WCF Data Services Framework uses
ASP.NET for Authentication and
Authorization

12. BUILDING A WCF DATA SERVICES

13. DEPLOYING WCF DATA SERVICES

14. MORE INFORMATION
OData Home – http://odata.org
WCF Data Services Framework Home --
http://tinyurl.com/wcfdataservices
WCF Data Services Framework Team Blog --
http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam
ODataPrimer.com – http://odataprimer.com

15. WRAP UP
Required Reading

16. DO YOU WANT TO WIN A AMAZON FIRE ?
Come see me to get registered.

17. CONTACT ME!!
 cwoodruff@live.com
 Chris.woodruff@perficient.com
 Twitter @cwoodruff
 Mobile 616 724 6885
 MSN IM cwoodruf f@live.com
 Skype cwoodruf f