Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2

ADO.NET Data Services URI Options

Table A-8. ADO.NET Data Services query string options

Option	Description	Example
expand	Requests set(s) of related entities to be retrieved.	/Products(7)?$expand=Categories
orderby	Indicates the sequence entities to be retrieved.	/Employees?$orderby=LastName asc,FirstName asc
skip	Skips a number of data items. Useful for paging.	/Products?$skip=10
top	At most, returns the top number of data items.	/Products?$orderby=ProductName&$top=10
filter	Applies a filtering condition to narrow the data returned.	/Products?$filter='ProductName eq Widget'