Services over Custom Data Sources
You can create an ADO.NET Data Service that exposes query access
to data where a provider with an IQueryable
implementation exists over the
data. If the provider also has an IUpdatable
implementation, ADO.NET Data
Services supports making modifications to the model, too. If you are
looking to expose data from a relational database, the Entity Framework
is tightly integrated with ADO.NET Data Services out of the box,
allowing you to expose data from SQL Server and other third-party
relational databases. As ADO.NET Data Services grows in popularity it is
reasonable to think that other entity modeling tools will follow suit
and will offer IQueryable
and
IUpdatable
implementations. In the
meantime, you can expose custom objects manually so that they can be
consumed, in this case by Silverlight 2 applications through the ADO.NET
Data Services Silverlight client library.
Using ADO.NET Data Services over a custom entity model requires that you have a custom entity model and that you then complete the following basic steps:
Create a custom data source.
Create a class that represents the model of the data for the services (a data context class).
Implement
IQueryable
and/orIUpdatable
for the data model class.Reference
System.Data.Services.dll
.Create a service with ADO.NET Data Services.
Derive the service from
DataService<
CustomContextGoesHere
>
.
The CustomDataService.Web example project for this chapter contains a web application project with an ADO.NET Data Services ...
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