Telerik Data Services WizardBETA

Telerik OpenAccess ORM offers the developer a tremendous benefit by providing the data access plumbing in web and Windows applications. A best practice is to separate your data tier from your UI and business tiers and communicate via a service, such as WCF. In addition to WCF many developers are also using RESTful services such as ADO.NET Data Services or the REST capabilities build into WCF via the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2.

In order to work with these technologies, the developer has to create the service endpoints, a pretty generic but manual and time consuming task. The Telerik Data Services Wizard is a tool that will automatically create the C# code and necessary project files for using OpenAccess entities with the following services, saving the developer time and eliminating syntax errors and bugs:

• Data Services for .NET 3.5 SP1 Version 1 (Astoria)
• Data Services for .NET 3.5 SP1 Version 2 (Astoria)
• WCF EndPoints Service
• REST Collection WCF Services
• ATOM Publishing Protocol WCF Service

Using the wizard is easy, after startup, the developer open Microsoft visual studio 2008 and opens a new project and creates the data access layer using Telerik OpenAccess ORM or just opens an existing project that contains a data access layer built with OpenAccess, and then he/she will choose the Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard from Telerik Menu, and choose the project that represents the data access layer and through the wizard it will be easy to choose which entities to expose, which type of service to generate and incase of choosing Atom Publication Protocol WCF service the user will be able to set which field inside each entity to be the “Title” and which one to be the “Description” (which will be shown in the Generated Service Atom Feed) , and finally the user can choose which project he/she wants to export the service to.

Download and run the Telerik Data Services Wizard today. The Telerik Data Services Wizard now works with any version of Telerik OpenAccess ORM. In addition, the wizard will only produce C# code, not VB.net. In the future we will let you choose dynamically what version of Telerik OpenAccess ORM you want to use, include VB.net support.