What is ADO.NET Data Services?

ADO.NET Data Services, provides the ability to expose data as a service, available to clients from across the corporate intranet or across the Internet. These services are then accessible over HTTP, using URIs to identify the pieces of information or “resources” made available through a service.

enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within corporate networks and across the internet. A data service is reachable via regular HTTP requests, using standard HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE to perform CRUD operations against the service.