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Consuming a WCF Data Service using ASP.NET

by Jagadish Pulakhandam on 2/13/2012 1:58:21 PM
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Brief: Demonstrates on consuming an already hosted OData Service (created using WCF Data Services) using ASP.NET using LINQ
Posted to: Consuming WCF Data Services (OData)
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This article introduces the following:
  • How to consume an already hosted OData Service (created using WCF Data Services)
    • By connecting through Northwind OData Service hosted by Microsoft
  • How to fetch data using LINQ from Data Service client
  • How to Bind OData Service data to GridView

Following are the steps:
  • Using Visual Studio 2010, create a new "ASP.NET Empty Application" Project ("ODataConsuming01" in this case)
  • Right click on "References" and choose "Add Service Reference"

  • Provide service url and Namespace details as follows (http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/):


  • Add a new web form to the project (WebForm1.aspx in this case)
  • Drag a GridView and make sure that the markup looks like the following:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebForm1.aspx.cs" Inherits="ODataConsuming01.WebForm1" %>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:GridView ID="gvCustomers" runat="server">
        </asp:GridView>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

  • Write code-behind as shown below:
01.using System;
02.using System.Collections.Generic;
03.using System.Linq;
04.using System.Web;
05.using System.Web.UI;
06.using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
07. 
08.using System.Data.Services.Client; //necessary to work with Data Services client
09.using ODataConsuming01.NorthwindSvcRef; //referring the proxy (or service client)
10.namespace ODataConsuming01
11.{
12.    public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
13.    {
14.        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
15.        {
16.            //create the context (also called proxy or service client or client instance)
17.            NorthwindEntities ctxt = new NorthwindSvcRef.NorthwindEntities(new Uri("http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/"));
18. 
19.            //issue OData query using LINQ
20.            var q = ctxt.Customers.Select(o => new {
21.                Id = o.CustomerID,
22.                Name = o.ContactName
23.            });
24. 
25. 
26.            //execute query and assign the results to GridView
27.            gvCustomers.DataSource = q.ToList(); //the request to service is sent during the execution of this statement
28.            gvCustomers.DataBind();
29.        }
30.    }
31.}

  • Execute the application and you should see the output as shown below:


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