$select in listdata.svc

Sure you don’t want to load all the properties of listitems, like ContenTypeId and so on. We cannot avoid __metadata property :), but we can let listdata.svc to send only properties we want. By the way, the best tool for building listdata.svc queries is linqpad. Just write a usual Linq and linqpad converts it to web service url query:   Another great stuff is $count, just add ?$count and you get only the count of items, no other junk.

• Listdata.svc
• Sharepoint