ADO.NET Data Services, formerly known as Project Astoria, is comprised of a collection of patterns and libraries that can be used to expose an application's data as a service. This service can then be consumed by client applications using HTTP calls. You can use ADO.NET Data Services to isolate the Data Access Layer, and it exposes data via WCF services to discover, manipulate, and retrieve data in a corporate network. You can also use ADO.NET Data Services to expose data that is retrieved using the Entity Data Model as a service and then access this service using WCF service calls over HTTP protocol.
In this concluding chapter of the book, we will discuss the following:
An overview of ADO.NET Data Services
The REST-based model
Creating an ADO.NET Data Service
An overview of the System.Services.Data namespace
Using the ADO.NET Data Services Client Library to perform CRUD operations and exposing Stored Procedures as URIs
Exception Handling and Debugging...