Consuming WCF Data Services
You essentially consume WCF Data Services the same way you consume pure WCF services. Basically you need to add a service reference from the client and then instantiate the proxy class. Such a class will be generated for you by Visual Studio 2010 and will expose members for accessing data on the server. As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, WCF Data Services can be consumed by different kinds of clients such as Windows (Console, Windows Forms, WPF) and Web (Silverlight, ASP.NET Ajax) applications. The next example shows you how to consume Data Services from a Console client application. Such a project template is useful for focusing on concepts that you can apply to other kinds of applications.
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