What are your favorite resources concerning RESTful WCF?

Question

Please let me know your favorite books, blogs, articles etc about RESTful WCF. I know how to Google - what I'm really looking for are sites, books, etc that you have personally used and gained something useful from.

Thanks!

Answer 1

These two articles on Rick Strahl's blog pretty much are the best examples and resources i have found:

First One

Second One

Answer 2

Of course WCF REST Starter Kit
Also, endpoint.tv series of screencasts starting with this one

Answer 3

The best source for internals of WCF(not just from a restful perspective) are articles by Aaron skonnard.

http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/aaron/default.aspx

For general REST architectural related questions, the yahoo group "Rest-discuss" is an excellent forum.

Another good source of information is Nicholas Allens indigo blog "http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/"

Hope that answers your question

Answer 4

The best book I've found is RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. It describes the REST architectural pattern and contrasts it with other web service styles. It describes how you would go about designing a RESTful interface and develops several examples over the course of the book.

Appendix B is particularly useful: It describes the HTTP status codes and how they should be used. I refer to it often.

Edit: The book above doesn't address WCF specifically. For that, you'd want to read Jon Flander's RESTful .NET. This book assumes you've got some familiarity with WCF, and want to know how to do RESTful things with it.

If you need a primer on WCF, I'd look to Michele Leroux Bustamante's Learning WCF. You can get the latest updated code samples from the book at her website, That Indigo Girl. It's a well written introduction to WCF.

Also noteworthy is the book Juval Löwy wrote, Programming WCF Services, which dives into a lot of details. But if you're sticking to RESTful principles, you probably won't need this level of depth.