Creating a RESTful API with WCF. Aaron Sloman and Haider Sabri gave a talk about "Creating a RESTful API with WCF" at MIX08 introducing a sample REST application called RESTChess.
The talks starts with some background information about the REST support within WCF provided by Aaron Sloman. Haider Sabri continues by giving a brief introduction to REST and its principals. According to Haider the key benefits of REST are Low barrier of entry ROA follows Web Semantics ... convenient for Web Service APIs Flexibility in Response formats In his opinion "REST is best choice when creating a general API when clients are unknown". Foundations: Declarative WCF Security. Foundations Declarative WCF Security Juval Lowy.