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Up & Running w/ OData in ASP.NET 6
Up & Running w/ OData in ASP.NET 6
Hassan Habib July 10, 2021 Jul 10, 2021 07/10/21
In this article, I'm going to walk you through the simplest way you can follow to get up and running with OData 8.0 on ASP.NET 6.0 - including source code examples, video walk-throughs and a glimpse into the future of OData.
API versioning extension with ASP.NET Core OData 8
API versioning extension with ASP.NET Core OData 8
Sam Xu July 9, 2021 Jul 9, 2021 07/9/21
Introduction API versioning can help evolving our APIs without changing or breaking the existing API services. URL segment, request header, and query string are three ways to achieve API versioning in ASP.NET Core application. ASP.NET Core OData 8, built upon ASP.NET Core, has the built-in API versioning functionality via route URL prefix ...
Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 RC
Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 RC
Sam Xu April 7, 2021 Apr 7, 2021 04/7/21
Introduction Attribute routing is how Web API matches the incoming HTTP requests to an action based on route template attributes decorated on controller or action. ASP.NET Core defines a set of route template attributes to enable attribute routing, such as RouteAttribute, HttpGetAttribute etc. ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 RC supports these ...
OData Connected Service 0.12.0 Release
OData Connected Service 0.12.0 Release
Avatar February 25, 2021 Feb 25, 2021 02/25/21
OData Connected Service 0.12.0 has been released on the Visual Studio Marketplace. This release includes the following changes:   Restored default settings Some default options were inadvertently changed in a previous update, leading to default options that do not make sense for the majority of use cases. We have ...
Passing OData Query Options in the Request Body
Passing OData Query Options in the Request Body
John Gathogo December 4, 2020 Dec 4, 2020 12/4/20
The query options part of an OData URL can be quite long, potentially exceeding the maximum length of URLs supported by components involved in transmitting or processing the request. HTTP does not impose any limits on the length of a URL, however, many hosting environments (including IIS) impose limitations which may restrict the client's ...
Routing in ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 Preview
Routing in ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 Preview
Sam Xu November 2, 2020 Nov 2, 2020 11/2/20
Introduction In the previous version of ASP.NET Core OData, such as 6.x and 7.x version, the OData routing is IRouter-based Web API Routing, that is, OData router is a Router implementing IRouter interface. Even in the ASP.NET Core OData 7.x Endpoint Routing, it is also related to the IRouter routing. Since 8.0, we want to build the OData ...
ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 Preview for .NET 5
ASP.NET Core OData 8.0 Preview for .NET 5
Sam Xu October 19, 2020 Oct 19, 2020 10/19/20
Recently, OData team released the 8.0.0 preview version of ASP.NET Core OData on nuget.org. It is the first version of OData supporting .NET 5, especially for ASP.NET Core 5. This version includes some breaking changes, such as model builder separation, namespace changes and configuration changes etc. Most importantly, the routing mechanism is...
Dynamic properties container property in OData Client
Dynamic properties container property in OData Client
John Gathogo September 8, 2020 Sep 8, 2020 09/8/20
When working with open types in an OData service, dynamic properties are held in a container property of type IDictionary<string, object>. However, support for a similar container property has traditionally been absent in OData client. For this reason, dynamic properties returned from an OData service could only be mapped to declared ...