I am demonstrating how to create a REST-based web service using WCF at the upcoming NBNUG meeting. Here is the abstract:
Tuesday, 4/21/2009, meeting at 7:00 PM
O'Reilly Media in Sebastopol
1003-1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol
Tarsier Conference Room (between Building B and Building C)
(8 miles west of Santa Rosa)
The presenter will walk through a working REST-based web service (and client), implemented with WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). We will discuss the underlying principles of REST (Representational State Transfer), the motivations for it, and how to create that style of web service using WCF. We will discuss how you can secure these type of web services and finally, we will briefly touch on ADO.NET Data Services (formerly known as Astoria): a technology that automatically exposes a REST web service layer on top of a Linq data source.