Microsoft datajs API: A 5 Minutes Quick Start

April 19, 2011 · 4 min read

Ajax enabled data centric applications are getting popular day by day in web development space. While these type of web applications provide rich user experience, building a robust and powerful application quickly is a great challenge for developers. Fortunately Microsoft has started providing great frameworks, plug-ins and APIs to facilitate this process.

Last week Microsoft announced a new version of java-script API “”, which is intended to help web developers to build data centric AJAX applications quickly, along with utilizing modern browsers features (such as HTML5 local storage, IndexDB etc) and protocols (such as oData). Datajs is designed to be small, fast and easy to use.

While datajs includes lots of cool features, today in this post, I will have a very basic introductory quick start so that any developer can have an idea how datajs can be implemented in different application architecture. Checkout last week’s MIX session video to learn few cool features available in datajs.

Download the full quick start sample from.

Invoking Cross-Domain Service

Netflix has provided an excellent oData API to enable developers to experiment with their data hosted in their infrastructure. The code below, uses NetFlix service and datajs API to show movie data. The cool thing is you really don’t need to build any web or data service to test your app.

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This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Ashraf Alam

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