Read original post at Beth Massi's Blog
As John announced Wednesday on the LightSwitch Team Blog, the next version of Visual Studio will include LightSwitch right in the box and there are a lot of awesome new features. My personal favorite is the Open Data Protocol (OData) services support. LightSwitch can now consume as well as produce OData services from it’s middle-tier. This means that applications you create with LightSwitch will automatically expose data as open services which allows a multitude of clients easy (secure) access into your data. It also means that you will be able to consume data services from within LightSwitch in order to enhance the capabilities of your applications. In this post I’m going to show you how you can take advantage of using OData in your LightSwitch applications.