# Monday, June 14, 2010

Last week at TechEd North America I did DEV303, Building RESTful Applications with the OData Protocol. I really enjoy doing this session since I get to code on the fly and talk about building applications. At a high level we covered:

  • What is REST, comparison to Web Services (REST is resource based, Web Services is RPC/method based)
  • What is OData, who is using it
  • When to use OData vs RIA Services (OData is for exposing data as a service across boundaries, RIA is for a VB6 style RAD application development)
  • Using WCF Data Services to build an OData Service
  • Consuming the WCF Data Service in Silverlight asynchronously –yes everyone had to suffer and watch me code
  • A Bill Gates joke
  • WCF Data Services Service Operations, Data Interceptors (Query and Change), Data paging
  • Consuming OData Services in ASP.NET (select and add, we even got to see my custom error raise)

You can download the slides and code here.

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