Consuming ADO.NET Data Services from jQuery

One thing that has certainly sped up my development time is using ADO.NET Data Services with my AJAX.  Instead of having to build controller actions or a web service to grab the data, i can just consume it from the data service directly.

I'm going to assume you know how to set up a Data Service - it really isn't too hard.

Actually getting jQuery to consume it isn't much harder. All you need is the standard '$.getJSON' function, and you're flying.

One thing that tripped me up, however, was the data that was returned from the service: a quick glance shows that the data is wrapped in a 'd' object.

{ "d" : [ (data here) ] }