Restful.net

"RESTful .NET" is the first book that teaches Windows developers to build RESTful web services using the latest Microsoft tools. Written by Windows Communication Foundation (WFC) expert Jon Flanders, this hands-on tutorial demonstrates how you can use WCF and other components of the .NET 3.5 Framework to build, deploy and use REST-based web services in a variety of application scenarios. RESTful architecture offers a simpler approach to building web services than SOAP, SOA, and the cumbersome WS-* stack. And WCF has proven to be a flexible technology for building distributed systems not necessarily tied to WS-* standards. This book gives you a complete guide to the WCF REST programming model for building web services consumed either by machines or by humans. No prior knowledge of REST or WCF is required to get started.

Although Jon Flanders spent the first few years of his professional life as an attorney, he quickly found chasing bits more interesting than chasing ambulances. After working with ASP and COM, he made the move to .NET. Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out exactly how .NET (specifically ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET) works. Deducing the details and disseminating that information to other developers is his passion.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
REST Basics	p. 1
Architecture of the World Wide Web	p. 1
SOAP	p. 4
REST	p. 5
Resources and URIs	p. 5
Uniform Interface	p. 7
Resource Representations	p. 9
Implementing a Simple RESTful Service Example	p. 11
Resources	p. 11
URIs and Uniform Interface	p. 11
Representations	p. 12
Interaction	p. 13
Wrap-Up	p. 14
Processes	p. 16
Summary	p. 16
WCF RESTful Programming Model	p. 19
Isn't WCF All About SOAP?	p. 19
Channels and Dispatching	p. 19
HTTP Programming with WCF 3.0	p. 22
Web Programming in WCF 3.5	p. 27
WebHttpBinding	p. 30
WebHttpBehavior	p. 30
WebServiceHost	p. 31
WebOperationContext	p. 31
WebGetAttribute	p. 32
UriTemplate	p. 33
UriTemplate Literal Values	p. 42
UriTemplate Special Values	p. 43
UriTemplate QueryString	p. 43
Summary	p. 44
Programming Read-Only Services	p. 47
Using WebGetAttribute and UriTemplate	p. 47
Data Formats	p. 49
Message	p. 50
DataContract	p. 52
XmlSerializer	p. 55
Hybrid Approach	p. 57
Summary	p. 58
Programming Read/Write Services	p. 59
POST, PUT, and DELETE	p. 59
Using WebInvokeAttribute	p. 60
Resources	p. 60
URIs and Uniform Interface	p. 60
Representations	p. 61
Implementation	p. 61
Summary	p. 71
Hosting WCF RESTful Services	p. 73
WCF REST Hosting Isn't a Special Case	p. 73
Self-Hosting	p. 74
Configuring, Opening, and Closing a ServiceHost	p. 74
Base Addresses	p. 79
ServiceHost Versus WebServiceHost	p. 80
Custom ServiceHost	p. 84
Hosting in IIS	p. 86
ASP.NET Compatibility	p. 92
Multiple Hostnames	p. 95
Removing the .svc File Extension	p. 96
Custom ServiceHostFactory	p. 98
Hosting Wrap-Up	p. 99
Summary	p. 99
Programming Feeds	p. 101
Building a Feed with WCF	p. 101
SyndicationItem	p. 105
Formatters	p. 107
Exposing a Feed on a Live URI	p. 110
Feed Validation	p. 111
Adding Links to a Feed	p. 115
Summary	p. 117
Programming Ajax and Silverlight Clients	p. 119
WCF Web Services and Ajax	p. 120
JSON	p. 123
JSON-Enabling a Service Endpoint	p. 127
ASP.NET Ajax	p. 132
Silverlight 1.0	p. 141
Silverlight 2.0	p. 142
Parsing XML in Silverlight 2.0	p. 144
Parsing JSON in Silverlight 2.0	p. 151
Consuming Feeds in Silverlight 2.0	p. 152
Cross-Domain Security in Silverlight 2.0	p. 154
Returning JSON and XML Conditionally with a Single Method	p. 154
Summary	p. 157
Securing REST Endpoints	p. 159
Authenticating: Self-Hosted Endpoints	p. 159
Setting Endpoint Security: WebHttpBinding.Security's Mode Property	p. 161
Setting Authentication Requirements: WebHttpBinding's Transport Property	p. 165
Authenticating: Managed Hosting Endpoints	p. 169
Authorizing Endpoints	p. 170
Authorization with Impersonation	p. 170
Role-Based Authorization	p. 171
Summary	p. 174
Using Workflow to Deliver REST Services	p. 175
Consuming REST Services from WF	p. 175
The SendActivity Instance	p. 176
The ReceiveActivity Instance	p. 181
Stateless Workflow Services	p. 182
Stateful Workflow Services	p. 189
Summary	p. 193
Consuming RESTful XML Services Using WCF	p. 195
Defining the Client	p. 195
Generating the Contract	p. 197
Creating the Resource Representations	p. 199
Creating the ServiceContract	p. 207
Using the Service	p. 209
Client Extensibility	p. 214
Summary	p. 216
Working with HTTP	p. 217
Programming HTTP with WCF	p. 217
IncomingWebRequestContext	p. 219
OutgoingWebResponseContext	p. 220
OutgoingWebRequestContext	p. 222
IncomingWebResponseContext	p. 223
Context Wrap-Up	p. 223
Status Codes	p. 224
201 - Created	p. 227
404 - Not Found	p. 229
Conditional GET	p. 231
LastModified	p. 232
ETags	p. 236
Caching	p. 239
Output Caching	p. 239
HttpContext.Cache	p. 241
Content-Type	p. 242
Summary	p. 243
WCF 3.5 SP1	p. 245
ADO.NET Data Services	p. 257
ADO.NET Entity Framework Walkthrough	p. 273
Index	p. 279
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