MIX was indeed a busy time for the WCF Team. We delivered several talks, and released several shiny new toys to the community for folks that are building web-based systems. WebSockets Craig Kitterman of our Interoperability group, and Paul Batum , whom you might know of from his work on Fluent...

A little over a month ago we launched our new WCF Web Apis on Codeplex . Since then a bunch of folks in the community (and some internal folks) have been posting about their own explorations / thoughts of the new bits. it’s great to see the work that they are doing! I am going to start aggregating these...

At PDC in my session  “Building Web APIs for the Highly Connected Web” we announced WCF Web APIs, new work we are doing to make HTTP first class in WCF. In this post I am going to describe what we are doing and why. If you are saying, “just show me the bits”, then just head on over to wcf.codeplex...

If you are building for the web and the cloud, then you know that HTTP is important. WCF is no stranger to HTTP. Since .NET 3.5, we’ve been continually delivering capabilities in the platform to enable developers to expose services as resources over HTTP. Now we’re looking to raise the bar several notches...

ca·non·i·cal [ kə nónnik'l ] conforming to general principles: conforming to accepted principles or standard practice In this episode I'll tell you about my new Cannonical REST Service sample code on MSDN code gallery that demonstrates a REST Service built with WCF 4 that...

This is part ten of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Generating and including ETags in responses from a WCF WebHttp Service Adding Conditional GET support to a WCF WebHttp Service using ETags Over the course of...

This is part nine of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Learning the basics of T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Using T4 to create views in WCF WebHttp Services for text-based content Over the course of...

This is part eight of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Using the new WCF WebHttp Services API for content negotiation Returning content with custom formats in addition to XML and JSON Configuring WCF WebHttp Services...

This is part seven of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Creating ASP.NET cache profiles in configuration for use with WCF WebHttp Services Using the [AspNetCacheProfile] attribute to associate service operations with...

This is part six of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Composing multiple WCF WebHttp Services into a single web service Using ASP.NET routes with WCF WebHttp Services Over the course of this blog post series, we...

This is part five of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Handling Errors with the WebFaultException class Over the course of this blog post series, we are building a web service called TeamTask . TeamTask allows a team...

This is part four of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Configuring automatic format selection for a WCF WebHttp Service Setting the response format explicitly in code per request Over the course of this blog post...

This is part three of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Creating operations for updating server state with the [WebInvoke] attribute Persisting changes with the ADO.NET Entity Framework in a web service scenario ...

This is part two of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Using the HttpClient from the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 Browsing the Automatic Help Page of a WCF WebHttp Service Over the course of this blog post series...

This is part one of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Downloading and using the new online project templates for WCF WebHttp Services Learning the basics of a WCF WebHttp Service : [WebGet] and UriTemplates Creating...

Over the next six weeks we are going to be releasing a series of blog posts that will focus on the new features in .NET 4 around WCF WebHttp Services . WCF WebHttp Services is the flavor of WCF that is most appropriate for developers who need complete control over the URI, format, and protocol when...