Comments on: Tech Ed Talk: REST Patterns and .NET http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/ C#, .NET, Ruby, Rails, book reviews, mind hacks, Wing Chun and the occasional personal bit. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:26:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: James Crisp - C#, JRuby, Ruby on Rails, .NET, book reviews, film reviews, mind hacks, Wing Chun and the occasional personal bit. » REST and .NET talk at ACS http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-8579 James Crisp - C#, JRuby, Ruby on Rails, .NET, book reviews, film reviews, mind hacks, Wing Chun and the occasional personal bit. » REST and .NET talk at ACS Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:52:17 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-8579 [...] about REST, designing good RESTful systems and implementing them in .NET. It will be similar to the REST Patterns in .NET talk I gave at Tech Ed. For more information, please check out the blurb at the ACS [...] [...] about REST, designing good RESTful systems and implementing them in .NET. It will be similar to the REST Patterns in .NET talk I gave at Tech Ed. For more information, please check out the blurb at the ACS [...]

]]> By: James http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-8491 James Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:16:54 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-8491 Hi Craig, Thanks for your comment. WCF REST has support for choosing verbs and URI templates, and also nice support for ATOM. Astoria Data Services (built on WCF) give you a handy API for exposing your data via CRUD mapped to REST. However, with WCF, it's all based around serialised objects, rather than documents. This means you'll have a lot of difficulty controlling your representations, and including links and microformats in them (ie, you miss out on the whole hypermedia and discoverability side of things). WCF will not give you control or access to headers and status codes, which are pretty important when building a good restful system. So yeah, I think the best option is ASP.NET MVC which gives you full control of routing, representations, headers, status codes etc. Hi Craig,

Thanks for your comment. WCF REST has support for choosing verbs and URI templates, and also nice support for ATOM. Astoria Data Services (built on WCF) give you a handy API for exposing your data via CRUD mapped to REST.

However, with WCF, it's all based around serialised objects, rather than documents. This means you'll have a lot of difficulty controlling your representations, and including links and microformats in them (ie, you miss out on the whole hypermedia and discoverability side of things). WCF will not give you control or access to headers and status codes, which are pretty important when building a good restful system. So yeah, I think the best option is ASP.NET MVC which gives you full control of routing, representations, headers, status codes etc.

]]> By: Craig Bruce http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-8485 Craig Bruce Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:28:48 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-8485 Hi... attended your talk at Tech-Ed on REST patterns and found it very useful/informative... I remember you covering points on why REST with WCF is not a good idea but didn't take notes :( ... would you be able to point me to these reasons by way of reply or link? That would be great ..thanks! Hi... attended your talk at Tech-Ed on REST patterns and found it very useful/informative...

I remember you covering points on why REST with WCF is not a good idea but didn't take notes :( ...

would you be able to point me to these reasons by way of reply or link?

That would be great ..thanks!

]]> By: James Crisp - C#, JRuby, Ruby on Rails, .NET, book reviews, film reviews, mind hacks, Wing Chun and the occasional personal bit. » Slides from Tech Ed “Rest Patterns and .NET” Talk http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-8312 James Crisp - C#, JRuby, Ruby on Rails, .NET, book reviews, film reviews, mind hacks, Wing Chun and the occasional personal bit. » Slides from Tech Ed “Rest Patterns and .NET” Talk Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:37:55 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-8312 [...] might also be interested in more information about the talk or the simple rest client with code I mentioned during the [...] [...] might also be interested in more information about the talk or the simple rest client with code I mentioned during the [...]

]]> By: James Crisp - C#, JRuby, Ruby on Rails, .NET, book reviews, film reviews, mind hacks, Wing Chun and the occasional personal bit. » Simple Rest Client http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-7700 James Crisp - C#, JRuby, Ruby on Rails, .NET, book reviews, film reviews, mind hacks, Wing Chun and the occasional personal bit. » Simple Rest Client Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:42:46 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2008/08/07/tech-ed-talk-rest-patterns-and-net/#comment-7700 [...] preparing for my upcoming REST talk, I made a basic REST client. It’s nothing special but allows you to set the verb, request [...] [...] preparing for my upcoming REST talk, I made a basic REST client. It’s nothing special but allows you to set the verb, request [...]

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