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I've created a gadget for our CRM consultants that allows them to present data from an oData source in CRM. At the moment, it will connect to any data source but for customer sites we need to develop an oData service using WCF each time for each data source.
Does anyone know if there's a decent generic tool out there that can retrieve data from SQL Server, present it (via IIS) as oData and that can be configured without Visual Studio by a non-developer?
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We (the WCF Data Services team) have heard this ask a couple of times; what follows are a few of my thoughts in no particular order.
These thoughts aren't really intended to dissuade at all, but hopefully they give you some things to think about should you attempt to create a generic provider on your own. If you do so, I'd love to hear about it.
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