How to Create OData Service in ASP.NET

In this article you will learn how to create an OData Service in ASP.Net.

First of all start Visual Studio and create a new website and provide the name and location and click "Next" then click on "Add new item" and select "ADO.NET Entity Data Model" from installed templates and click "Add".



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And the next step is to choose "Generate from database" and click the "Next" button and after that choose your data connection.



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Now select table names and objects and click "Finish".



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Now right-click on the solution and click on "Add new item" and select "WCF Data Service".



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This is the default class code.

public class CustomersService : DataService< /* TODO: put your data source class name here */ >

{

    // This method is called only once to initialize service-wide policies.

    public static void InitializeService(DataServiceConfiguration config)

    {

        // TODO: set rules to indicate which entity sets and service operations are visible, updatable, etc.

        // Examples:

        // config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("MyEntityset", EntitySetRights.AllRead);

        // config.SetServiceOperationAccessRule("MyServiceOperation", ServiceOperationRights.All);

        config.DataServiceBehavior.MaxProtocolVersion = DataServiceProtocolVersion.V3;

    }

}

You need to make a few changes like the following:

public class CustomersService : DataService<NORTHWNDEntities1>

{

    // This method is called only once to initialize service-wide policies.

    public static void InitializeService(DataServiceConfiguration config)

    {

        // TODO: set rules to indicate which entity sets and service operations are visible, updatable, etc.

        // Examples:

        config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("Customers", EntitySetRights.AllRead);

        // config.SetServiceOperationAccessRule("MyServiceOperation", ServiceOperationRights.All);

        config.DataServiceBehavior.MaxProtocolVersion = DataServiceProtocolVersion.V3;

    }

}

Now right-click on the service and click on "View in browser".

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<service xml:base="http://localhost:5376/CustomersService.svc/">

  <workspace>

    <atom:title>Default</atom:title>

    <collection href="Customers">

      <atom:title>Customers</atom:title>

    </collection>

  </workspace>

</service>