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# or VB 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 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 user 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, and which type of service to generate, and if you chose output project to be a website you will be enable to switch between generation languages (VB.net or C#) else you will have the only the language of the web application that you had chose to be your output project.

If you chose 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 supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. In addition, the wizard will produce C#, or VB.net code.