Monthly Archives: April 2012

Action Filter to support oData expands as EF includes in ASP.Net Web API

Back in March I wrote a quick howto on supporting $expand for entities in ASP.Net Web API. That method used an extension method to pull the $expand clause out of the query string an apply it to the ObjectSet. I’ve now added to that sample an ActionFilter which will do this for you without any [...]

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OData V3 any/all support

WCF Data Services 5 has been RTM’d and adds support for a whole bunch of scenarios: Any/All Actions Collections Named Streams/Stream Properties PATCH Verb Prefer Headers Properties on Derived Types Support for DateTimeOffset and TimeSpan Data Types Support for DbContext as the DataService Source Spatial Vocabularies The most interesting bit for me initially was Any/All. [...]

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