Visual Studio Code Knows OData Through a new Visual Studio Code Extension for OData, developers can now get rich language support for the OData query language. Enabled features include syntax highlighting and query encoding/decoding. Syntax aware formatting, metadata-driven code completion, and diagnostics are available in a beta state, and can...
OData 4.0 Published as ISO/IEC 20802 For those that missed the announcement, I’m thrilled to report that OData 4.0 has been ratified and published as an ISO/IEC Standard. OData 4.0 was published as an OASIS Standard in February of 2014. OASIS submitted OData 4.0 (including Errata) to the ISO/IEC JTC...
Salesforce External Object Reporting with OData Reporting against external objects has been highly anticipated based on numerous requests on the Idea on the success community. Back in Winter ‘16, Mark Kovacevich blogged on a popular workaround to use external objects for reporting with custom visual force pages and apex controllers....
Progress DataDirect held the first known OData Hackathon this week at APIWorld 2016. Participants built applications to integrate with voice assistant services like Microsoft Cortana and Amazon Alexa that used OData to pull and update data from Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Sugar CRM. The winners, Echo Jokes, used facial...