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Quickstart (WCF Data Services)

This quickstart helps you become familiar with WCF Data Services and the Open Data Protocol (OData) through a series of tasks that support the topics in Getting Started with WCF Data Services.

What You Will Learn

The first task in this quickstart shows how to create a data service to expose an OData feed from the Northwind sample database. In later topics, you will access the OData feed by using a Web browser, and also create a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client application that consumes the OData feed by using client libraries.

Prerequisites

To complete this quickstart, you must install the following components:

  • Visual Studio 2010.

  • An instance of Microsoft SQL Server. This includes SQL Server Express, which is included in a default installation of Visual Studio.

  • The Northwind sample database. To download this sample database, see the download page, Sample Databases for SQL Server.

WCF Data Services Quickstart Tasks

  • Creating the Data Service
    Define the ASP.NET application, define the data model, create the data service, and enable access to resources.

Note

Project files from a completed version of the quickstart can be downloaded from the WCF Data Services Documentation Samples page.

Next Steps

Start the Quickstart.

See Also

Other Resources

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