Where can I download the WCF/OData for .NET 3.5?

Question

I downloaded the update at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2343 but I am not getting Microsoft.Data in the list of .NET references to add to my project.

Also, is Microsoft.Data.Edm included in the 3.5 version?

thanks - dave

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Answer 1

The Microsoft.Data.Edm (as well as Microsoft.Data.OData) has only been released for .NET 4.0. We didn't release a .NET 3.5 build of these libraries. If you could describe the scenario in which you can't upgrade to .NET 4.0 it would help us consider the cost of porting these to .NET 3.5 based on some real data.

Thanks,

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Vitek Karas [MSFT]

Answer 2

Hi;

Two reasons:

First, our situation is somewhat unusual (although there are more companies than most estimate doing the same thing). We have a system where a major part of our code is written in Java. That code is then compiled in both Java and J#. About half of our customers are using Java. The other half use .NET. This way we have a single code base but can still provide native Java and .NET libraries. It all works pretty well. The J# part restricts us to .NET 3.5.

Second, a significant number of our customers are still on .NET 2.0, and most are on 3.5 or below. If we switch to 4.0 then we lose most of our customer base. That would be a gigantic financial hit - we would be better off taking the time to write our own version of OData (the part we need).

Are you still making the source to this available? And if so, could we build it under .NET 3.5?

thanks - dave

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Answer 3

Just following up on this thread also - we'll try to get updated 5.0.1 source posted to the CodePlex site this week. I'm not sure if it will directly compile against .NET 3.5, and we haven't done the same level of test runs against .NET 3.5 that we have against 4.x, but it should certainly be a good head start.

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HTH, Mark Stafford

Answer 4

I found the older sources and they compile and run fine under 3.5.

FWIW - I think you need to offer this under 3.5 too as any 3rd party library that wants to use this is built under 3.5 because most of the people they sell to are still using 3.5.

thanks - dave

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Answer 5

Hi Mark;

Any update on when the latest sources will be posted?

thanks - dave

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Answer 6

Hi DavidThi808,

Please be patient with it, Mark Stafford will update this thread if the sources is posted. Thanks for your understanding. :)

Best Regards

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Allen Li [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 7

Hi Allen;

I'm asking because if it will be a couple of weeks (or possibly never), then I would like to know now as we then have to implement this ourselves.

thanks - dave

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Answer 8

Hi DavidThi808,

I have searched on CodePlex just now, it seems that it has not been released. :)

Best Regards

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Allen Li [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 9

Never mind - we wrote our own equivalent. Turns out to be very easy (took 1-1/2 days).

thanks - dave

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Answer 10

Scenario - you are working on SharePoint 2010 and have to access services via OData.  SharePoint 2010 requires .Net 3.5.  We are stuck with limited OData client capabilities because of this at this time.

Answer 11

The OData library compiles fine under .NET 3.5 (in fact the uploaded sources are set to build using 3.5). However, Microsoft is no longer posting the sources so no updates.

Definitely how one part of Microsoft says you must use 3.5 while another requires 4.0...

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