Please Recommend a Good .NET Oriented REST book

Question

Hi Guys

I'm Curious if somebody could recommend a book about REST that isn't "Effective REST Services Via .NET: For .NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft .Net Development)". One of my colleagues read it and he wasn't too impressed with it.

Can anyone suggest a better one?

Thanks

Dave

Answer 1

Although I haven't read it myself, I've been recommended RESTful .Net. Check it out.

Answer 2

I have the O'Reilly book RESTful .NET (Build and consume RESTful web services with .Net 3.5) on my desk, I've read it from cover to cover and I would recommend it. It covers everything you need to know to get to a decent understanding of wcf endpoints and many gotchas are helpfully pointed out along the way - I got the impression that this book was written by someone who actually codes this stuff!

Answer 3

I would recommend one of these books:

http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-Web-Services-Cookbook-Scalability/dp/0596801688/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268309299&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/REST-Practice-Hypermedia-Systems-Architecture/dp/0596805829/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268309356&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Restful-Web-Services-Leonard-Richardson/dp/0596529260/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268309380&sr=1-1-spell

I would suggest not getting a book that is related to any implementation technology other than http, it will really interfere with understanding the concepts.

Answer 4

WCF REST PROGRAM EDUCATION CONTENT ON MSDN Library.