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Announcing OData .NET 8 Release Candidate 1

July 12, 2024 Jul 12, 2024 07/12/24
Elizabeth Okerio
OData .NET 8.0 RC1 is now available, bringing numerous significant improvements to the following libraries: This is the final release candidate before the official launch of these libraries, scheduled for August 12th. Most of the planned features and changes are included in this release candidate and are ready for you to ...

Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData 9 Preview Release

June 12, 2024 Jun 12, 2024 06/12/24
Elizabeth Okerio
We are excited to announce the forthcoming major release of Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData, scheduled for June. In preparation for this significant update, we have made preview versions of the library available to gather early feedback from our community. The following preview release is now available on NuGet: Key Update The primary ...

OData .NET 8 Preview Release

April 26, 2024 Apr 26, 2024 04/26/24
Clément Habinshuti
We would like to announce that we are planning a new major release of OData .NET core libraries in June. Ahead of this release, we have released preview versions of the libraries to get some early feedback from the community. Specifically, the following preview releases are now available on NuGet: It has been almost 8 ...

Deep insert support in OData client

September 22, 2023 Sep 22, 2023 09/22/23
Kennedy Kangethe Munga
In the Deep insert support in OData webapi blog post, we demonstrated how to add deep insert capabilities to an OData service. In this blog post, we demonstrate how to add deep insert capabilities in OData client. In the following sections, we implement a client app. Create a Console application ...

Working with media resources in OData – Part 2

August 8, 2023 Aug 8, 2023 08/8/23
John Gathogo
In Part 1 of this blog post, we demonstrated how to implement an OData service that serves media resources. In Part 2, we look at how to implement a client app that interacts with the OData binary large object (BLOB) feed to both retrieve and post binary data along with the metadata for the media resource. The OData BLOB feed created in ...

Working with media resources in OData – Part 1

August 8, 2023 Aug 8, 2023 08/8/23
John Gathogo
OData enables you to define data feeds that serve binary large object (BLOB) data. In OData lingo, this binary data is referred to as a media resource. A media resource (MR) is an unstructured piece of data or stream, e.g., a document, image, or video. It is requested from the data service separately from the entry in the feed to which it ...

Enable Un-typed within ASP.NET Core OData

June 19, 2023 Jun 19, 2023 06/19/23
Sam Xu
Introduction The latest ASP.NET Core OData supports the following two built-in OData abstract types: Developers can use them to advertise a property in OData metadata schema (aka, Edm model) so that such property is declared with a particular name present, but there is no type associated to describe the structure of the ...

Deep insert support in OData Web API

June 9, 2023 Jun 9, 2023 06/9/23
Kennedy Kangethe Munga
Background In , we added support for deep insert. In deep insert, we create an object and its related items or link existing items in a single request. This blog post is a continuation of Bulk Operations Support in OData Web API. In that blog post, we explained how to use and classes. We will not repeat that in this blog post. Bulk ...

Enable CBOR within ASP.NET Core OData

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23
Sam Xu
Introduction CBOR, which stands for Concise Binary Object Representation, is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation (from cbor.io). CBOR is based on the wildly successful JSON (aka, JavaScript Object Notation) data ...