2008.3

A lot of attention is being applied to Services being built with a RESTful architecture these days, especially with the rise of Web technologies like AJAX, JSON and Silverlight. REST programming used to be somewhat daunting, but with the release of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 3.5 and its support for the Web Programming Model, you will see that it is quite easy to add RESTful Services. In this session, which will feature  a lot of demos, we cover the basics of REST, and how to build Services using WCF 3.5 that are RESTful in nature. We will also talk about adding Syndication Feeds using ATOM to our Services, as well as integrating AJAX and Silverlight with these technologies.

Sam Gentile is .NET Technical Architect in the Web Development Center at Wyeth Pharma in Malvern, PA, working with a variety of .NET Web technologies. He has been on the .NET platform since its inception in 1999, and a developer for 26 years utilizing all manner of tools, methodologies and languages. Sam was part of the original group on Ward Cunningham’s Wiki that helped form the original Agile methodology, Extreme Programming in the 1990’s. Sam is a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems, as well as an INETA Speaker, delivering presentations to user groups all over the world.