Query options $expand, $filter, $orderby, $inlinecount, $skip and $top cannot be applied to the requested resource Dynamics CRM 2011

This error "Query options $expand, $filter, $orderby, $inlinecount, $skip and $top cannot be applied to the requested resource Dynamics CRM" 

 will be thrown while accessing OData query in the following format

  "/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/" + odataSetName  + "$select=fieldi1,field2&$filter=entityid eq guid'" + selectedID + "'";

As the expected result is one record but the OData expected a result set and tries to extract data from it. The above one works fine if the result set expected is more than 1

If the expected result is one record better to use in the following way

 "/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/" + odataSetName  +  "(guid'" + id +"')",


Hope this helps if you stuck in that error