How to consume OData service with Html/Javascript?

Question

Our project currently uses Silverlight to consume an Odata service. This has made life pretty simple since we can just reference the OData service thus giving us generated s

Answer 1

OData sources can return data as JSON so your web pages can XHR your data and receive it as JSON which gets de-serialized back into a Javascript object for you to pick apart and act-upon or display.

Here are some additional links to get you started:

• New Javascript OData Library [MSDN]
• OData protocol by example [MSDN]
• Leveraging OData end-points in JSON format with JQuery
• Consume an OData service with JayData
• Consume an OData service with BreezeJS

HTH.