Microsoft and other software companies announced last week that they want the Open Data Protocol (OData) to become an international industry standard. OData is a REST-based Web protocol for sharing ...

OData, the Open Data Protocol, is a protocol from Microsoft for querying and updating data. You may remember hearing "Astoria" Protocol or ADO.NET Data Services ...

Developers today were still weighing in on a recent Microsoft decision to switch directions on OData support to focus on ASP.NET Web API instead of WCF Data Services, angering many who had invested ...

The Microsoft-initiated OData protocol introduced way back in 2007 is in need of an update, the company said in announcing the next-gen version: OData NxT. OData, short for Open Data Protocol, became ...