</ iframe > </noscript> <!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) --> <div id="BeforeHeaderContent"> </div> <div id="HeaderContent"> <!--DXMETADATA start type="Literal" condition="communityenabled" value="%%scrap:name=_COMMUNITY_RATING%%" --><!--DXMETADATA end --> <!--DXMETADATA start type="LogoImage" --><!--DXMETADATA end--> <div id="ProjectTitle"><!--DXMETADATA start type="ProjectTitle" -->LightSwitch HTML Edition<!--DXMETADATA end--></div> <div id="PageTitle"><div id="PageTitleText"><!--DXMETADATA start type="ItemTitle" -->Connect to OData Service<!--DXMETADATA end--></div></div> </div> <div id="AfterHeaderContent"> <!-- Spacing --> <span id="ToggleAllSectionsLink" class="FunctionLink"> <label id="CollapseAllLabel"><!--DXMETADATA start type="Phrase" name="COLLAPSE_ALL" -->Collapse All<!--DXMETADATA end--></label> <label id="ExpandAllLabel" style="display: none;"><!--DXMETADATA start type="Phrase" name="EXPAND_ALL" -->Expand All<!--DXMETADATA end--></label> </span><!--DXMETADATA start type="Literal" condition="communityenabled" value="%%scrap:name=_COMMUNITY_DROPDOWN%%" --><!--DXMETADATA end --> </div> <!--DXMETADATA start type="Breadcrumbs" scrap="_BREADCRUMBS" --><div class="BreadcrumbsContainer"><table><tr><td> <a href="ConnectingtoData.html">Connecting to Data</a> > Connect to OData Service</td></tr></table></div><!--DXMETADATA end --> <div id="BodyContent"> <!--DXMETADATA start type="TopicSection" name="BodyText"--><p>To connect to an external OData Service, complete the following:</p> <ol> <li>In the Solution Explorer, choose the <b>Data Sources</b> node.</li> <li>On the menu bar, choose <b>Project | Add Data Source</b>. The <b>Attach Data Source Wizard</b> appears.</li> <li>In the <b>Attach Data Source Wizard</b>, choose <b>OData Service</b>, and then click <b>Next</b>.</li> <li>On the <b>Enter Connection Information</b> page, in the OData Source Address box, enter a URL, for example, <a href="http://lsdemo.componentone.com/DataServices/Demo.svc/" target="_blank">http://lsdemo.componentone.com/DataServices/Demo.svc</a>.</li> <li>Under Login Information, choose <b>None</b>, and then choose the <b>Next</b> button. Note that the correct setting depends upon the implementation of the service you specified in the previous step.</li> <li>On the <b>Choose your Entities</b> page, select the entities and then click on the <b>Finish</b> button.</li> </ol> <p>The data source is added to the project under the <b>Data Sources</b> folder and the entities are created.</p> <p><!--DXMETADATA end--> <a name="seealsobookmark"></a> <!--DXMETADATA start type="FilteredItemList" scrap="CATEGORISED_LINKS" namespace="linkcategory" source="Item" filter="" NoHeader="True" NoFooter="True" format="%%replaceinquotes:value=false%%%%scrap:name=_COLLAPSIBLE_HEADER,idprefix=seealso,caption=""%%phrase:name=SeeAlso%%%%designlist:tagidentifier=seealso,itemtype=See Also%%""%%%%filtereditemlist%%</div>"--><!--DXMETADATA end--> </div> <div id="FooterContent"> <!--DXMETADATA start type="Scrap" condition="communityenabled" name="_COMMUNITY_FOOTER" --><!--DXMETADATA end --> <!--DXMETADATA start type="Variable" name="CopyrightNotice" format="<p> </p><p> </p><hr style=""height: 1px"" /><p>%%variable%%</p>" --><p> </p><p> </p><hr style="height: 1px"><p>Copyright (c) <script type="text/javascript"> var theDate=new Date() document.write(theDate.getFullYear()) </script> GrapeCity, inc. All rights reserved. <script> $(document).ready(function() { if (!(window.self !== window.top)) { // Not running in a frameset // Get the page name var pageName = location.href.substring(location.href.lastIndexOf("/") + 1); if (pageName.indexOf("#") != -1) { pageName = pageName.substring(0, pageName.indexOf("#")); } // Append to webframe.html var framePage = "webframe.html#" + pageName; location.href = framePage; } }); </script></p><!--DXMETADATA end --> <!--DXMETADATA start type="Variable" name="FeedbackLink" format="" --><a href="http://feedback.componentone.com/forums/255790-asp-netlightswitch-documentation" target="_blank">Documentation Feedback </a> | <a href="http://our.componentone.com/groups/" target="_blank">Product Support Forum </a><!--DXMETADATA end--> </div> </body> </html>