Creating WCF Data Service using OData
Hi Friends, Today let's talk a bit about OData protocol and how to host a simple WCF data services in IIS 8. Open Data Protocol or OData for short is used almost in everywhere in the software industry to exchange data. It is a open standard and many technologies like .net, java, iOS, android, ruby, javascript etc... provide adequate support for OData exchange. Let's create a simple WCF data service and see how to host it in IIS 8. Follow these simple steps. Before that, This is a summary of what we are about to do. "We create a simple database with one table, and expose the data using WCF data service to clients as XML or Json. The service is then be hosted in IIS 8 " This is a Notification Service which will push daily notifications upon user requests. Once a user request with the date, it will send the related notification to the user. Very simple service!! Let's get started.. Step 01 First off, we need to cr