In designing software there is a fundamental trade-off between simplicity and power.  Great products have just the right mix of the two.  When it comes to REST the team has been grappling with this balance.  If you have seen the WCF REST...

Recently I was working on some code where I was using classes generated by a tool.  I wanted to be able to construct one of these generated types from another type so I decided to use a constructor overload to support this. // From file SomeClass...

When I woke up this morning I had not planned on the day unfolding like this, but an email from a colleague started me on a path and here is where it led. If you create a service that uses UriTemplates  with the WCF REST Starter Kit and you include...

Recently I was doing some testing in partial trust scenarios with RESTful services and I ran into a problem.  If you use the WebServiceHostFactory to create your RESTful service and  you have no System.ServiceModel configuration (which you don...