Been playing around with the (Single Page App) BigShelf sample. I found really interesting is the GetBooksForSearch method (/api/BigShelf/GetBooksForSearch) that it takes ad
There's an action filter attribute called ResultLimitAttribute which you can use on any action method which returns IQueryable or even IEnumerable to limit the amount of data returned.
[ResultLimit(100)]
public IQueryable Get() {
// ...
}