Microsoft TechEd 2010 is OData enabled

WCF Data Services Team Blog - TechEd 2010 OData Service

“TechEd North America 2010 is fast approaching (it starts Monday). This year we have added an OData service to the TechEd site, just like we did for MIX10 earlier this year. The service exposes the sessions, speakers and other associated information for the conference and is a great way to learn OData. Check-out the API page on the TechEd site here for more information on the service. If you are attending TechEd make sure you stop by the DMG booth (in the DAT section) and show the folks from DMG your OData App.

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North American TechEd - API for Session Data

“Not happy browsing our list of sessions on the web, feel like doing some data mining of your own, building an app to show how schedule planning should be done? Well, if any of those statements apply to you, then we have the data you need.

The Open Data Protocol, referred to as OData, is a new data-sharing standard that breaks down silos and fosters an interoperative ecosystem for data consumers (clients) and producers (services) that is far more powerful than currently possible. It enables more applications to make sense of a broader set of data, and helps every data service and client add value to the whole ecosystem. WCF Data Services (previously known as ADO.NET Data Services), then, was the first Microsoft technology to support the Open Data Protocol in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. It provides developers with client libraries for .NET, Silverlight, AJAX, PHP and Java. Microsoft now also supports OData in SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Azure Storage, Excel 2010 (through PowerPivot), and SharePoint 2010. Many other other applications in the works.(from MSDN)

The URL for the TechEd North America OData service is http://odata.msteched.com/sessions.svc/, and you can find more information on how to access this data on http://www.odata.org …”

http://odata.msteched.com/sessions.svc/

Snap via OData Explorer;

Continuing on their OData’ing of their sessions, started with MIX10, Microsoft’s TechEd North America also has an OData service/feed/end point.

Very cool to see this effort continued.

 

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