Database Reference
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Figure 7-11.
OData Explorer
This page also allows you to edit the data of each record via an Edit link on each row in the grid (if
the SQL Azure user selected in the User Mapping section in Figure 7-5 is write-enabled). You can also
view related data via links on each row (determined by examining relationships). You can navigate to
specific data via the text box at the top of the form (just as you did in the browser examples), or you can
build your own query via the Build Query button.
This section doesn't explore all the functionality of the application, but it does show what can be
done to view data exposed via an OData service. Frankly, this is a nice application, and it should give you
an idea of what you can do.
If you have some time, look at the other OData consumers. But just as important, let's move on to
the next section, in which you build your own OData consumers.
Building Two OData Consumer Applications
The rest of this chapter focuses on building two applications that consume the OData service that you
just enabled on your SQL Azure database. The first one is very simple, to whet your appetite and show
you the basics. The second is the cool one. (But don't skip the first one!)
