Usually all my posts about REST are about WCF or mention this technology in some parts. Today, I decided to take a different approach and discuss some of the projects available today for building REST services, Resourceful and Dream framework (Both available for mono as well). It is worth mentioning...

As I promised in my previous post "OAuth Channel for WCF RESTful services", it is now time to show this new channel in action with a real service. To make this sample more interesting, I decided to base this implementation on an ADO.NET service that provides information about contacts. This post will...

While OpenID and WS-Federation focus on delegating user identity (or a collection of identity claims), OAuth was designed to address a different and complementary scenario, the delegation of user authorization. In few words, OAuth allows a client application to obtain user consent (as access tokens)...

Continuing from my previous posts " REST and Workflow services play well together I " and " REST and Workflow services play well together II ", in which I created a new binding to send the workflow context as an http header, I've applied some modifications to that sample to support also routing through...

I just finished my session about RESTful Services patterns at the Dallas IASA Regional Conference . I would like to thanks Paul Preiss and the IASA folks for extending me this invitation and particularly to all the folks who attended the session. The slide deck can be downloaded here and I think the...

Conditional puts is a technique generally used in a REST architecture to inform clients about possible conflicts when multiple updates are performed simultaneously over the same resource version. It basically works as fist-write / first-win approach, a client can only commit an operation only if the...

Automatic documentation is another cool feature introduced in the WCF REST Starter kit. While documentation is an important aspect in the development process, unfortunately there is not an standard mode or guidance yet about how this should be done for REST services. This new feature comes to help a...

Let's begin from a hypothetical example that we want to publish a simple product catalog as an ATOM feed. The product table schema in our database was initially designed as follows, The first step is to enable the SQL notification for the products database, that can be done with the following commands...

In my previous post "REST and Workflow services play well together" , I mentioned that Http Cookies were one of the built-in mechanisms for transferring the workflow context across calls between the client and the service. While cookies work well for http services, from my point of view, simple Http...

As promised, this is the first of a series of posts that intend to cover the new capabilities implemented in the WCF REST Starter Kit to enhance the development of RESTful services using WCF. Specifically, this post is focus on how to enable caching on RESTFul services by using the REST Starter Kit ...