OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 v1.0 RTW!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 v1.0 RTW!

Microsoft Downloads - OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 (v1.0)

"This sample allows you to expose an OData service for Team Foundation Server 2010. This service can make it easier to build applications for a multitude of devices which consume or manipulate data stored in Team Foundation Server 2010.

Version: Beta RTW
Date Published: 10/26/2011

Language: English

File Name: ODataForTFS2010v1.0.exe, 22.0 MB

The purpose of this project is to help developers work with data from Team Foundation Server on multiple types of devices (such as smartphones and tablets) and operating systems. OData provides a great solution for this goal, since the existing Team Foundation Server 2010 object model only works for applications developed on the Windows platform. The Team Foundation Server 2010 application tier also exposes a number of web services, but these are not supported interfaces and interaction with these web services directly may have unintended side effects. OData, on the other hand, is accessible from any device and application stack which supports HTTP requests. As such, this OData service interacts with the client object model in the SDK (it does not manipulate any web services directly).

For a video demonstration of this service please click here.

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I thought the release in April was the beta, so I wonder if this is really a beta or a v1 (or a v1 Beta :| )? Seems to be a v1, based on the title and the file name, but the "Version" label says "Beta." I'm confused...

I should have kept scanning my feeds, Brian Keller is on top of it and has more details....

Brian Keller - OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 - v1

"A few months ago we released the beta of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010. Today, I am pleased to announce that v1 of this service is now available and you can download it here.

What the heck is an OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010?
I’m glad you asked. The purpose of this project is to help developers work with data from Team Foundation Server on multiple device types (such as smartphones and tablets) and operating systems. OData provides a great solution for this goal, and has been embraced by numerous developers for building great device-specific applications. OData is accessible from any device and application stack which supports HTTP requests. This OData service interacts directly with the TFS client object model.

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