Access You r Data On Premise Or In The Cloud With ADO.NET Data Services

摘要

Web Services has been a hot topic for a number of years now, but what, you may wonder, are these Data Services everyone's talking about lately? As the architecture of Web applications has changed and matured (with the popularity of Rich Internet Applications [RIAs], for example), there has been an increased awareness of the value of exposing raw data, minus any interface or formatting, to any service or application that wants to consume it. Data Services are simple data-centric services with a RESTful interface, that do exactly that—expose pure data for consumption by applications. Such services expose data using a uniform interface to be rnconsumed by Web clients across a corporate intranet or the Internet. Data Services can be built and hosted on your premises using the AD0.NET Data Services Server Library to expose data securely as a service, or may be made available by various hosted services such as Windows Azure Table.