REST

Why read or write to the file system? This session provides an overview about interacting with the file system and leveraging web services. [01:26] - Interacting with the File System [13:03] - How to modify files [16:11] - What are web services? [27:34] - REST services and serialization [43:34] -…

Claudio Caldato, Senior Program Manager in the Interoperability Technical Strategy team and Pablo Castro, software architect of ADO.NET Data Services introduce a new project that bridges PHP and .NET: the Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services. The PHP Toolkit  is an open source…

Once the initial allure of the cool graphics and animation capabilities of Silverlight has passed, you’ll probably say to yourself, "Hey, my app needs data too!" Well, this session delivers on that – not once, not twice, but thrice! We’ll look at accessing remote data services from…

REST (Representational State Transfer) is all the rage as a lightweight, web service architecture that relies on existing web standards such as HTTP and XML.  In this session, you’ll get insight into the roots of REST, including its four main tenets, and be able to critically discern how…

This screencast shows how AppFabric Access Control (AC) can be used to provide identity federation, trust delegation, service authorization and integration with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), to control access to services based on Windows Azure. In the demo,…

The web was built on a principle that the client can ask for a representation of a resource in the format that they can support.  Browsers typically support this using an Accept header.  In the world of REST however most people have moved to a model where the format is a part of the…

In WCF, we’re serious about HTTP and we’re serious about REST. We’re making deep investments in WCF to provide more natural support for HTTP and for building RESTful systems. If you want to exposing your APIs in a web friendly manner that leverages all the richness, scale and evolve-ability that…

This Web Application Toolkit shows how to easily add REST service interfaces for an existing Web application. The Web Application Toolkit includes a sample of REST services based on a fictitious online auction site. It exposes an API using REST services built with the Windows Communication…

WCF 3.5 provides the ability to easily expose services to AJAX client applications.  Specifically, the webHttpBinding has an "AJAX-Friendly" endpoint behavior.  What do I mean by "AJAX-Friendly"?  To me, it means that we will create a client proxy that knows how…

Most of you know all about SOAP but perhaps you have been hearing a lot more about REST web services lately.  Wondering what this is all about?  Well check out this episode where Bob Familiar and I discuss the two.