Apr
12
Written by:
Michael Washington
4/12/2012 5:43 AM
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One tool that you can use to browse your LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2011 Beta OData feeds is LinqPad. Another one is the Silverlight OData Explorer.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/Using-The-OData-Explorer-with-LightSwitc_55EA/image_thumb_3.png)
You can run the OData Explorer from this link:
http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/odataexplorer/default.html
(Note: The LightSwitch OData feed is the address of your LightSwitch application with /ApplicationData.svc/ at the end)
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/Using-The-OData-Explorer-with-LightSwitc_55EA/image_thumb_4.png)
You will want to click the Install Out Of Browser link to install it locally if you need to access an OData feed that requires you to log in.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/Using-The-OData-Explorer-with-LightSwitc_55EA/image_thumb_5.png)
Click install.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/Using-The-OData-Explorer-with-LightSwitc_55EA/image_thumb_6.png)
Enter the connection information.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/Using-The-OData-Explorer-with-LightSwitc_55EA/image_thumb_7.png)
Enter the credentials of a user of the application.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/Using-The-OData-Explorer-with-LightSwitc_55EA/image_thumb_8.png)
The Service will be added but the box to add a service will still be in the way.
Close the application…
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Click in the icon that was added to your desktop to re-open.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/Using-The-OData-Explorer-with-LightSwitc_55EA/image_thumb_10.png)
Log in.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/Using-The-OData-Explorer-with-LightSwitc_55EA/image_thumb_11.png)
You can click on collections to browse them.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/Using-The-OData-Explorer-with-LightSwitc_55EA/image_thumb_12.png)
The Raw button allows you to inspect the raw feed.