WCF Web Programming Model Resources

Posted by Hartmut Wilms on Jan 22, 2008

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Since the first announcement of WCF's Web Programming Model and its official release within the .NET Framework 3.5 only few information have been readily available. Now, Steve Maine provides a comprehensive list of resources.

The Web Programming Model is WCF's approach to RESTful web services.  InfoQ has published a concise introduction to REST, which helps getting a grasp on what RESTful web services are all about. According to Steve "MSDN has a lot of great content on this stuff, but it's kind of sprinkled around in various places". Thus he "figured it would be nice to have links to all of the important topics in one place" and provides "the 'mini-TOC' for the Web Programming Model content":

Conceptual Overviews:

• Web Programming Model
• AJAX and JSON
• WCF Syndication (Atom and RSS)
• Partial Trust

Class Library Reference (not exhaustive):

• System.ServiceModel.Web Namespace
• System.ServiceModel.Syndication Namespace
• System.Runtime.Serialization.Json Namespace
• SyndicationFeed Class
• SyndicationItem Class
• WebOperationContext Class
• WebServiceHost Class
• WebGetAttribute Class
• WebInvokeAttribute Class
• WebHttpBehavior Class
• WebScriptEnablingBehavior Class
• DataContractJsonSerializer Class

Configuration Schema:

• enableWebScript
• webHttp
• webHttpBinding

Samples:

• Web Programming Model
  • Basic Web Programming Model
  • Advanced Web Programming
  • UriTemplate
  • UriTemplate Table
  • UriTemplate Table Dispatcher
  • WebContentTypeMapper
  • HTML Form Handler
  • Push-Style Streaming
• AJAX and JSON
  • Basic AJAX Service
  • AJAX Service Without Configuration
  • AJAX Service Using Complex Types
  • AJAX Service with JSON and XML
  • JSON Serialization
  • Weakly-typed JSON Serialization (AJAX)
• Syndication
  • Intro to Syndication
  • Loosely-Typed Extensions
  • Strongly Typed Extensions
  • Streaming Feeds
  • Feed Formatter (JSON)
• Partial Trust
  • Partial Trust client and server
• Everything and (a picture of) the Kitchen Sink (Thanks, Justin!)
  • http://samples.netfx3.com/PictureServices/

Steve has written several articles about the Web Programming Model on his own:

• A Brief Aside: WebServiceHostFactory
• Zen of the Web Programming Model (Part 1)
• Zen of the Web Programming Model (Part 2)
• Zen of the Web Programming Model (Part 3)
• UriTemplate.Match
• WebHttpBehavior vs WebScriptBehavior

John Flanders shows how to use WCF WebHttpBinding and WebGet with nicer Urls when publishing RESTful WCF services on IIS7, provides a Video - using BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with REST Services (.NET 3.5) and explains why he likes REST better than SOAP/WS-*.

 

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