A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit. Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight August 2009 NOTE: This paper is based on the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 release. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 3.5 introduced a “Web” programming model for building RESTful services in .NET. Although WCF 3.5 lays a solid foundation for building a wide-variety of RESTful services, it still requires developers to implement a great deal of boiler-plate code for each RESTful service they build and to deal directly with important HTTP protocol features. The WCF REST Starter Kit provides a set of WCF extensions and project templates that aim to simplify REST development even further. Although the WCF REST Starter Kit is currently considered a “preview” technology, many of its features will most likely find their way into future versions of the .NET Framework.
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 before proceeding. Automatic Help Page. Siesta: Painless REST via ASP.NET MVC — Discord&Rhyme. Zen uses quite a few open source libraries, and I feel a sense of responsibility to contribute back where I can. To that end, I’m releasing the basic infrastructure that powers the Zen API under the name Siesta. Siesta is a simple and flexible REST system driven by ASP.NET MVC. While you can take the Siesta bits and use them directly in your app, it’s intended more as an example of how to implement your own system.
The basic idea behind Siesta is to communicate only using models within your application, and allow the infrastructure to handle the serialization and de-serialization, similar to how a view engine manipulates ViewModels or ViewData. Models are just POCOs, and serialization is controlled the [DataContract] and [DataMember] attributes in System.Runtime.Serialization (so yes, this requires .NET 3.5). Siesta also uses the (sweet-with-extra-awesomesauce) JSON.NET library from James Newton-King. Here’s an example of an entity that can be serialized via REST: Like this: Like Loading...
Daptivate > by Kyle Beyer. Mix 2008, 65 presentations so far (WMV direct l... MVC Contrib - MvcContrib.org - Home. Unifying Web "Sites" and Web Services with the ... By aaron|asp.net, tools, web services (For those who’d rather just download the code, the link is at the end.) Lately I’ve been delving into the ASP.NET MVC framework, the timing of which has been interesting as I am about to finish reading RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby.
It’s an excellent book that I’d highly recommend to anybody designing and creating services for the web, or just interested in it. This quote from the book description on Amazon.com succinctly describes what’s been floating around in my head for a while: You’ve built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That’s where the future lies, and that’s what RESTful Web Services shows you how to do.
Why do we have to build web "sites" for humans and different web services for machines? With the ASP.NET MVC Framework, though, I see the opportunity to unify services and "sites" (human-readable services). Approach I tend to agree with that. Yuck! REST Anti-Patterns. When people start trying out REST, they usually start looking around for examples – and not only find a lot of examples that claim to be “RESTful”, or are labeled as a “REST API”, but also dig up a lot of discussions about why a specific service that claims to do REST actually fails to do so. Why does this happen? HTTP is nothing new, but it has been applied in a wide variety of ways. Some of them were in line with the ideas the Web’s designers had in mind, but many were not. Applying REST principles to your HTTP applications, whether you build them for human consumption, for use by another program, or both, means that you do the exact opposite: You try to use the Web “correctly”, or if you object to the idea that one is “right” and one is “wrong”: in a RESTful way.
For many, this is indeed a very new approach. As with any new approach, it helps to be aware of some common patterns. Let’s start with a quick list of anti-patterns I’ve managed to come up with: Ryanolshanrest - Google Code. Introducing Lullaby : Official Website of Ryan ... JSON Hijacking.