I have found many way to user Entity Framework but All I am looking to do is to use standard Connection to pull data from a database and then expose it through web API.
I can grab every record through the main IEnumerable but I don't want to have to grab 15,000 records from a table where I only need one.
If anyone can point me in the right direction here I would be very thankful.
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mystrymaster
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Web API plus a regular Database Connection
Jan 22, 2013 07:05 PM|LINK
I have found many way to user Entity Framework but All I am looking to do is to use standard Connection to pull data from a database and then expose it through web API.
I can grab every record through the main IEnumerable but I don't want to have to grab 15,000 records from a table where I only need one.
If anyone can point me in the right direction here I would be very thankful.
DarrellNorto...
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Re: Web API plus a regular Database Connection
Jan 23, 2013 09:38 AM|LINK
Sounds like you could use OData. MVC4 and WebAPI support OData and it's pretty easy.
See this blog post to get started:
http://robbincremers.me/2012/02/16/building-and-consuming-rest-services-with-asp-net-web-api-and-odata-support/
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