Creating a data entity with an Edit in Excel experience

In this task, we will create a data entity for our vehicle table, which we will extend in order to demonstrate how data entities can be used. We will also use this to allow us to maintain vehicle data through the Office add-in and make it a public OData entity.

Getting ready

We will just need to have an SCM project open, and a table for which we want to create a data entity.

How to do it...

To create the data entity, follow these steps:

1. Before we start, we need to check that the table we are going to use has a natural...