The Gryphin Experience

WCF Data Services (formerly known as "ADO.NET Data Services") consists of a combination of patterns and libraries that enable you to create and access data services for the Web or an intranet. WCF Data Services exposes data as resources that are addressable by URIs. This enables you to access and change data by using the semantics of representational state transfer (REST), specifically, the standard HTTP verbs of GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE.

Through this hands-on lab you will learn how to create a data service using the Entity Framework as its data source, and how to consume the service using both the .NET client APIs and the ASP.NET AJAX APIs. You will also use Service Interceptors to add validation support and Service Operations to perform custom queries. Additionally, you will be introduced to the new Row Count feature, that provides support for determine the total number of entities in a set without retrieving them all.