In this article, we are going to implement a sample on OData in .NET7 API application. OData: The OData(Open Data Protocol) is an application-level protocol for interacting with data via the restful interface. OData supports the description of data models, editing, and querying of data according to those models. OData query features are: $select $orderBy $filter $skip $count $expand Sample SQL Table Scripts: Let's run the below sample SQL script to create a table like 'Employee'. Sample SQL Script: Create Table Employee( Id INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, FirstName VARCHAR(200) NULL, LastName VARCHAR(200) NULL, Salary Decimal(18,2) NULL, JobRole VARCHAR(50) NULL CONSTRAINT PK_Employee PRIMARY KEY (Id) ) Create .NET7 Web API Application: Let's create the .NET 7 Web API application to accomplish our demo. Here to create .NET 7 application we use IDE's(editors) either Visual Studio 2022 or Visual Studio Code(Using .NET CLI command). In this demo, we are going to use