WCF Data Service and Entity Framework

Question

just a couple of questions?

• WCF Data is tightly integrated with EF
• Can we have WCF data services with our own data contracts (user classes)? Any links to samples?
• If I implement WCF data services with custom classes (without using EF), does the methodology support the oData standard?

thank

Answer 1

The WCF data service will happily serve data from any data source if it implements an interface IQueryable(and possible IUpdateableif you want to also update existing data).

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