How to consume RESTful webservices with WCF ?

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How to consume RESTful webservices with WCF ?

Hi,

Is that better to use WCF REST Starter Kit for consuming web services (REST) with WCF (by using HTTPClient) or do it directly with WCF ?

It seems that WCF REST Starter kit won't be available for .NET 4.0 and is a preview version only.

Thanks !

Well, I guess that it primarily depends on whether the service is a REST service?

Yossi Dahan 2010-01-06 12:05:18

Oops, yes ! The service is a REST service.

Ariel32 2010-01-06 12:31:22

What?! and I don't get a vote up? :-)

Yossi Dahan 2010-01-06 14:37:11

WCF REST is a preview for .NET 3.5 SP1, but all its capabilities will be included in .NET 4.0 out of the box - no additional REST toolkit needed, WCF 4 will include all those protocols and bindings and helper classes.

marc_s 2010-01-06 12:31:17

Thanks for your help :)

Ariel32 2010-01-06 12:32:50

This may have been the intention at some point but now that .NET 4 is out it is clear the REST Starter Kit is not integrated into it. The first thing I ran into is the lack of HttpClient in .NET 4.

BrettRobi 2010-06-10 20:44:04

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