Consuming data over the web between PHP and .NET with REST and ADO.NET Data Services

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 project available on Codeplex at phpdataservices.codeplex.com. The goal is to make it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of the ADO.NET Data Services (ADO.NET Data Services offer a simple way to expose any sort of data in a RESTful way, more details here).

The video starts with a quick introduction and architecture white boarding session, followed by a demo.

Enjoy!

Additional resources:

• Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services on Interoperability Labs & Bridges
• Codeplex Project site: phpdataservices.codeplex.com
• Blog post "A new bridge for PHP developers to .NET through REST: Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services"
• ADO.NET Data Services on MSDN