Consuming OData services

There are lists of applications and frameworks that can consume OData services on the OData website. An example of these existing applications can be found at the following URL:

http://odata.org/consumers

Developers who wish to download SDKs that will allow them to consume OData natively from within their applications can find the links on the following page:

http://odata.org/developers/odata-sdk

The following is a short list of platforms and applications that support the consumption of OData services:

• Web browsers

• Ajax or JavaScript or jQuery

• Silverlight

• Windows Phone 7

• iPhone

• Android

• Excel

• LINQPad

• PHP

• Java

• Any platform that allows the creation of an HTTP request

Using Internet Explorer

The easiest way to get started with OData is to query an existing service manually with a web browser. There are a number of existing OData services listed at http://odata.org/producers that can be browsed. The OData service for http://Netflix.com will be used in this exercise to demonstrate...