WCF REST Starter Kit
For resources supporting the starter kit, including screencasts, hands-on labs, and blog content, please go to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/wcf/rest.
WCF REST Starter Kit Roadmap
- 11/17/2008 - WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 1
- 3/10/2009 - WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2
The WCF REST team is planning to release new iterations of the starter kit on a 4-month cycle.
The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of .Net Framework classes and Visual Studio features and templates that enable users to
create and access REST-style Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. These services are based on the WCF web programming model available in .Net 3.5 SP1. The starter kit also contains the full source code for all features, detailed code samples, and unit tests.
The first set of features in the starter kit is
server-side features for building WCF REST services, which enable or simplify various aspects of using the REST capabilities in WCF. These include declarative caching, security, error handling, help page support, conditional PUT, push style streaming, type based dispatch and semi-structured XML support. This functionality is exercised by a set of Visual Studio templates for creating REST services such as an Atom Feed service, a REST-RPC hybrid service, a resource singleton or collection service, and an Atom Publishing Protocol service.
Preview 2 of the starter kit introduces a second set of
client-side features for accessing WCF and third-party REST services from within .Net applications. The new HttpClient class provides the REST developer with a uniform extensible model for sending HTTP requests and processing HTTP responses, in a variety of formats. The new "Paste Xml as Type" Visual Studio add-in enhances the serialization support in HttpClient by generating serializable types based on XML examples or XSD schema.