SharePoint 2013 External Content Types in Visual Studio–OData

The documentation is a bit limited currently but wanted to share how to add an External Content Type in Visual Studio.

Starting with a standard SharePoint 2013 App Project

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Setup your App settings (SharePoint-hosted for local)

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Right-click the project and select Add. There is an extra menu-item called Content Types for an External Data Source.

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Put in the OData service URL

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Here I am using a free feed from the Azure Datamarket.

Here are the available data entities from this service

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After selecting the Event data entity the new list is setup as an External Content Type.

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