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Build Web Services Better and Faster with RESTful Techniques and .NET Technologies
Developers are rapidly discovering the power of REST to simplify the development of even the most sophisticated Web services—and today’s .NET platform is packed with tools for effective REST development. Now, for the first time, there’s a complete, practical guide to building REST-based services with .NET development technologies.
Long-time .NET and Web services developers and authors Kenn Scribner and Scott Seely explain why REST fits so smoothly into the Internet ecosystem, why RESTful services are so much easier to build, what it means to be RESTful, and how to identify behaviors that are not RESTful. Next, they review the core 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—including Windows Communication
Foundation (WCF) and Microsoft’s cloud computing initiative, Azure. Coverage includes
• Accessing RESTful services from desktop applications, using Windows Forms and WPF
• Supporting Web client operations using Silverlight 2.0, JavaScript, and other technologies
• Understanding how IIS 7.0 processes HTTP requests and using that knowledge to build better REST services
• Constructing REST services based on traditional ASP.NET constructs
• Utilizing the ASP.NET MVC Framework to implement RESTful services more effectively
• Taking advantage of WCF 3.5’s powerful REST-specific capabilities
• Creating RESTful data views effortlessly with ADO.NET Data Services
• Leveraging Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing platform to build innovative new services
• Choosing the right .NET technology for each REST application or service
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Build Web Services Better and Faster with RESTful Techniques and .NET Technologies
Developers are rapidly discovering the power of REST to simplify the development of even the most sophisticated Web services—and today’s .NET platform is packed with tools for effective REST development. Now, for the first time, there’s a complete, practical guide to building REST-based services with .NET development technologies.
Long-time .NET and Web services developers and authors Kenn Scribner and Scott Seely explain why REST fits so smoothly into the Internet ecosystem, why RESTful services are so much easier to build, what it means to be RESTful, and how to identify behaviors that are not RESTful. Next, they review the core 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—including Windows Communication
Foundation (WCF) and Microsoft’s cloud computing initiative, Azure. Coverage includes
• Accessing RESTful services from desktop applications, using Windows Forms and WPF
• Supporting Web client operations using Silverlight 2.0, JavaScript, and other technologies
• Understanding how IIS 7.0 processes HTTP requests and using that knowledge to build better REST services
• Constructing REST services based on traditional ASP.NET constructs
• Utilizing the ASP.NET MVC Framework to implement RESTful services more effectively
• Taking advantage of WCF 3.5’s powerful REST-specific capabilities
• Creating RESTful data views effortlessly with ADO.NET Data Services
• Leveraging Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing platform to build innovative new services
• Choosing the right .NET technology for each REST application or service
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This book brought all those back in time feelings up all throughout the first 2 chapters. I must say though, that I thoroughly enjoyed reading them. The history lesson and the state of things today, where very well written and kept my attention and interest throughout both chapters. The author's do a great job of digging into the guts of the foundations of REST, which really helps in the later chapters when they discuss the .NET tools used to develop RESTful solutions.
I also like that the authors aren't RESTful zealots. They give Web Services their rightful place and do not present REST as a new silver bullet, but rather a new tool for the tool belt.
They cover a ton of stuff in the remaining chapters and appendixes including using RESTful services from desktop applications using Windows Forms and WPF, using Silverlight 2.0, JavaScript, the ASP.NET MVC Framework, WCF 3.5, IIS 7.0, and Azure. Every chapter goes deep enough into the topic to give you a great start down the right path of using the technology.
The book is a very pleasant read and is well organized.
The downloadable code is very usable, well organized, and contains some great example implementations.
I also have noticed the authors are keeping the accompanying web site up to date and have already released a code fix.
If you want to learn the ins and outs of RESTful Services using .NET technologies, this book is the ticket.
I highly recommend this book.
The authors do a great job introducing each technology so that even readers who may be unfamiliar with one or more of the covered technologies would still be able to follow the discussion easily if they are somewhat comfortable with XML, JSON, and LINQ. They have definite opinions about how to use some of these technologies effectively and readers will find their advice worth considering. Of course, in deciding to go for breadth of coverage, the authors can only discuss each technology to a certain level of depth.
It's not a beginner level book. It's for professional MS developers already familiar with SOA. Author reviews internals of various MS frameworks before showing how to develop a RESTful application on them, but his review is more of a refresher than a tutorial. He even goes over XML processing in .NET.
His refreshers of the frameworks and XML allows you to read without interruption. I didn't have to drop the book and pick another reference to understand any of his example applications.
Great deep dive HOW-TO code example for each framework. I didn't run the code, just reading through it was easy and enough for me.
I learned a few new things not related to REST, such as how to load ASP.NET framework without IIS!
A bit dry though; it was hard to stay focused.
You can also buy pdf from the publisher, if you prefer it like I do.
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