Ultimate ASP.NET 5 Web API Development Guide - Exploring OData

The video tutorial covers implementing paging in a hotel control system, addressing casting errors, and introduces OData, a library for enhancing API functionality with minimal code. It guides through installing OData via NuGet, configuring it in .NET Core, and enabling query options like select, filter, and order. The tutorial concludes with testing OData queries using Test Man and Swagger, demonstrating how to manipulate data efficiently.

What is one of the main advantages of using OData in API development?

• It requires extensive additional code.

• It allows for complex data encryption.

• It enables ordering, sorting, and searching with minimal effort.

• It is only compatible with older versions of .NET.

Which package should be installed to use OData in a .NET Core project?

• Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData

• Microsoft.OData.Client

• Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc

• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore

Where do you append the OData configuration code in a .NET Core project?

• In the program.cs file

• In the appsettings.json file

• In the Startup.cs file

• In the web.config file

Which OData option allows users to perform search-like operations?

• Expand

• Select

• Filter

• Order

What annotation is used to enable OData queries on a controller action?

• [QueryEnabled]

• [ODataQuery]

• [EnableQuery]

• [AllowQuery]

What does the 'EQ' operator stand for in OData filter queries?

• Equate

• Equivalent

• Equation

• Equal

How can you order data by a specific field using OData?

• Using the $sort query string

• Using the $sequence query string

• Using the $orderby query string

• Using the $arrange query string