Effective REST Services via .NET: For .NET Framework 3.5

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Effective REST Services via .NET is the first practical guide to building better Web services with easy RESTful techniques and powerful .NET technologies. Long-time .NET and Web services developers Kenn Scribner and Scott Seely begin by explaining why REST is becoming so popular and what it means to be RESTful. Next, they review the Internet standards and .NET technologies used to develop RESTful solutions and show exactly how to apply them on both the client and server side. Using detailed code examples, Scribner and Seely begin with simple ASP.NET techniques, and then introduce increasingly powerful options. Coverage includes designing and architecting efficient REST services; accessing RESTful services from WinForms and WPF desktop applications; supporting Web client operations using Silverlight 2.0; building REST services via traditional ASP.NET constructs; using ASP.NET’s powerful MVC Framework; leveraging WCF 3.5’s REST-specific features; using ADO.NET Data Services to effortlessly create RESTful data views; and leveraging Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing platform to build services that would otherwise be virtually impossible.