Aaron has blogged about his latest whitepaper posted on MSDN - it’s called A Developer’s Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit . If you’re unfamiliar with REST concepts or the WCF 3.5 REST programming model, be sure to read A Guide to Designing and Building RESTful Services with WCF 3.5...
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A new version of the REST Starter Kit, Preview 2, is out on CodePlex . One of the new features is a dynamite client side library. Also, be sure to check out Ron Jacob's Labs for Preview 2....
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Today is the day of the announcement . Microsoft has made the WCF REST Starter Kit available on CodePlex ! I have been using a pre-release of this for a few weeks now and it is tremedously useful. The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of features, Visual Studio templates, samples and guidance that enable...
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Thanks to all of those who attended my REST session yesterday at the Philly Code Camp. The slides are posted here . The 10 demos are here. Enjoy! P.S. Wow ! 405 downloads already! My most popular presentation already over some that have been there for a year or more accumulating downloads. Technorati...
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As I listed in this post on the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 , there are a bunch of significant additions to WCF in SP1. The list looks pretty focused towards REST services and the Web. It's no secret that many developers are looking to REST and the simpler programming model for Web applications. In this regard...
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As Jon notes , he is working on a WCF REST book. It's been an honor to be one of his Tech Reviewers. I am learning a whole lot about REST and even some about Web programming in WCF 3.5. He also notes that I am sitting on his Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 course in NYC, which I noted here . I am...
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The thing about the RESTefarian Jihad is that they never stop. They take some simple good ideas and try to apply them everywhere, dominate discussions everywhere, basically take on all the characteristics of a bad religous bigot to the point of sickness and generally not answer the relevant questions...
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Clemens sets straight on the nonsense that Google has killed SOAP even as the RESTefarian Jihad celebrates : " What I find striking are the differences in the licenses between the AJAX API and the SOAP API. That's where the beef is....the AJAX API is constrained to use with web sites with the terms...
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