REST

Ron Jacobs discusses REST and SOAP with Bob Familiar: the differences, the similarities, and how Windows Communication Foundation supports these distributed networking protocols.

Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet. In this geekSpeak webcast, Adnan Masood illustrates how to create and host services in the cloud. Adnan highlights key features of the platform software development…

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…

So you have a really cool website using AJAX.  Great look and feel with high performance.  Sure you have Forms Authentiation enabled but how do you secure your services?  Can you use WCF and ASP.NET Membership together? In this episode of endpoint.tv you will learn the 7 steps to…

In this short video, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight shows the viewer how to take advantage of the request interceptor mechanism provided in the new API extensions in the WCF REST Starter Kit.  He extends the previous sample and shows how to add security authentication…

In this short video, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight shows the viewer how to take advantage of the new request interceptor functionality of the API extensions in the WCF REST Starter Kit.  He starts with a simple sample and shows how to add the new assemblies to the…

In this short video, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight guides the viewer through creating an Atom  Publishing Protocol service for allowing clients to interact with Atom feeds using the project template provided in the WCF REST Starter Kit.  Aaron walks through and…

As REST continues to grow in popularity, it’s important to stop and ask yourself why REST? REST is by no means a silver bullet but it does offer some advantages over traditional SOAP and WS-* architectures when it fits well into your scenario. There are also times when SOAP makes more sense…

The goal of the Starter Kit is to make it easier for designers and developers to use the APIs very easily.  Design-time data is included as well to help build the experience in Blend or Visual Studio.  Michael Scherotter has posted the full details behind the New York Times…

This week on MSDN Radio Mike Benkovich interviews Pablo Castro, one of the Principal Architects with the OData team. If you've been feeling RESTless and want to know how we got here tune in.MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news,…