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Introduction

In this tutorial we will look at how ADO.NET Data Services can be used to create services which are consumed by ASP.NET client. We will use Adventure works Lite database as an example to demonstrate the concepts. Code for this article can be downloaded at the bottom of the article.

ADO.NET Data Services as the name says is a services layer between your application and an underlying data source. It uses REST principals to access and persist information to and from the data source. Services layer itself can be created very easily. Most of the work is done by Visual Studio for you.

In this tutorial we will build an application for AdventureWorks Lite database. We will build a page which let’s a user browse through products. The reason for picking up AdventureWorks Lite as an example is so that we can work with a variety of data including images. If you do not have AdventureWorks Lite then you can download it here. For our application we will work with this data model