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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

You're reading from   Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration A step-by-step guide to creating and running scalable Silverlight Enterprise Applications on the Windows Azure platform with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683128
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
2. www.PacktPub.com
3. Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Windows Azure 3. Hosting Silverlight Applications in Azure 4. Using Azure Queues with Silverlight 5. Accessing Azure Blob Storage from Silverlight 6. Storing Data in Azure Table Storage from Silverlight 7. Relational Data with SQL Azure and Entity Framework 8. RIA Services and SQL Azure 9. Exposing OData to Silverlight Applications 10. Web-scale Considerations 11. Application Authentication 12. Using Azure AppFabric Caching to Improve Performance

Chapter 9. Exposing OData to Silverlight Applications

Enterprises typically have multiple silos of data held in systems across their entire network. Work has been done to get the service interoperability through SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). However, until recently, there has not been much work put into the data interoperability across applications. OData is an open standard that can be used to share data in an interoperable way.

This chapter will explore what OData is, and how it can be consumed and exposed in your applications. The following topics will be covered:

  • OData

  • Consuming OData services

  • Sharing data by using OData

OData

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol that enables the querying and updating of the data in a framework-agnostic manner. OData has been built by combining a number of existing web technologies together (HTTP, AtomPub and JSON), which allows any technology framework to consume or to produce OData services. As it is built on top of the existing web...

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