REST

ca·non·i·cal [ kə nónnik'l ] conforming to general principles: conforming to accepted principles or standard practiceIn this episode, I'll tell you about my new Canonical REST Service sample code on MSDN code gallery, which demonstrates a REST Service built with WCF 4 that fully complies with HTTP…

In .NET 3.5, we created the REST Starter Kit as a way to get you up and running with RESTful services. Now that .NET 4 is out, people are asking how to do things like API Key Verification in .NET 4. In this episode, I'll walk you through a sample.For more info Try the Project Template from…

In this interview, Kevin Israel, Visual Studio Team System MVP, shares with Zhiming Xue his thoughts on implementation of a hybrid architecture based on SOA and ROA in the enterprise space. Kevin explains what Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) is and, through examples, highlights its key…

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…

The web has been an amazing success and one reason why is because of the cachng it does.  One benefit of building RESTful services with WCF is that you can take advantage of the same caching infrastructure that the web does.  How do you do it?  Just sit back and watch this episode…

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.

Our friends and neighbors at Mix Online have just released the latest version of their site which includes a new lab offering: Incarnate. Incarnate is a REST-based service that uses peoples’ usernames to find their avatars on the web. To do this, Incarnate queries Facebook, MySpace,…