Kendo ui with oData

[Amir]

My boss told me to use the kendo UI to do the odata operation which is built in functionality of the grid. 

At first i told him when he told me to use the odata that we would need to modify our webapi to write odata but he said no we don thave to chanage that. 

 

Now i have been trying to read about the Grid and trying to see if in the detail it has mentioned that what grid has to do with oData or what benfit i am getting out of it.  So can you guide me please. 

[Dimo]

Hi Amir,

The following Grid demos use oData, please review them in detail.

http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/remote-data-binding

https://github.com/telerik/kendo-examples-asp-net/tree/master/grid-webapi-odata-crud

https://github.com/telerik/kendo-examples-asp-net/tree/master/grid-odata-crud

https://github.com/telerik/ui-for-aspnet-mvc-examples/tree/master/grid/odata-v4-web-api-binding

The main configuration setting that is required, is to set the Kendo UI DataSource type to "odata" or "odata-v4".

http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/data/datasource#configuration-type

Here is a relevant blog post too:

http://www.telerik.com/blogs/using-kendo-ui-with-mvc4-webapi-odata-and-ef

Regards,
Dimo
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