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WCF supports three types of message exchange patterns:

1. Request-Reply
This is the default mode. A point to note is that even if the return type of a service operation is “void” a response would still be sent back to the client.

2. One-way
In one-way operations, the service after queuing up the call doesn’t send anything back to the client. Few details:
- we need to apply “IsOneWay=true” on the operation we want to behave like a one-way
- method type return must be void
- for any exceptions in the service operation, client doesn’t receive any feedback (faults are not returned back).
- the client after making the call returns back immediately to continue execution even if the service operation is still in progress.

3. Duplex
Duplex allows two-way communication. The client makes a call to the service, and then later the service can make a separate call to the client (this call is different from the reply sent back to client for the first call). The call the service makes to the client has its o…

Last weekend I introduced myself to OData. Here are the findings :-)

Contents:

1. Scenarios
2. Approaches
3. OData
4. Using LINQPad to access NetFlix
5. Examples from the Real World (ecosystem)
6. Resources
7. Developing OData Services(WCF Data Service, ASP.NET Web API)
8. Accessing OData Services (.NET client, jQuery)
9. Limitations
10. And GData?

First let’s start with the scenarios or the domain where OData can be relevant.

Scenarios:

- Let’s say you are a company which runs buses. You are looking for ways to share the information about buses such as arrival time, frequency, operating hours, capacity, service closures etc. You want other web sites and smart phone applications to be able to access this data. How would you do it?
- Say you are working for an online video streaming company like NetFlix and you want to expose your data about movie titles, availability, reviews etc. You want to share this information over the web so that e-commerce web sites like Amazon can create a catalog of your pr…

SQL Server 2012 introduces the “IIF” function, it’s a shorthand for the CASE expression. I am sure C# developers would love it!

An example: here we are fetching the columns in the table (HumanResources.Employee) using sys.columns and sys.types

> Using CASE

USE AdventureWorks2012
GOSELECT col.[Name],
CASE col.[is_nullable] WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [IsNullable],
CASE col.[is_identity] WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' ELSE 'No' END AS [IsIdentity],
types.[name] as [DataType],
col.[max_length] AS [MaxLength]
FROM sys.columns col
INNER JOIN sys.types types ON
col.[user_type_id] = types.[user_type_id]
WHERE col.[object_id] = object_id('HumanResources.Employee')
ORDER BY col.[NAME]
GO

> Using IIF
SELECT col.[Name],
IIF(col.[is_nullable] = 1, 'Yes', 'No') AS [IsNullable],
IIF(col.[is_identity] = 1, 'Yes', 'No') AS [IsIdentity],
types.[name] as [DataType],
col.[max_length] AS [MaxLength]
FROM sys.columns col
INNER JOIN sys.types types …