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WCF REST Starter Kit

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Now that I'm mostly caught up with reporting on sessions from PDC, I'll start talking a bit about the future of WCF that we announced during the conference.

The REST Starter Kit is actually something that is available now rather than coming in the next release of the framework. We had been thinking for a while about the state of REST support for the platform and decided to bring together guidance and samples for how to use this architectural style with WCF. The starter kit includes some experimental framework classes, Visual Studio templates, code samples, and documentation to better enable you to create applications in the REST style using WCF. Some of these resources are focused on REST itself, others are more broadly applicable to HTTP services, and still others deal with specific protocols that are often found together with REST applications, such as Atom.

There's no guarantee that any part of the starter kit will become part of the mainstream framework, but if you find something here that's useful, tell me about it so that we know which features you get the most value from. You can also tell me about things that we didn't include in the starter kit that you would have expected to see.

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  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2008
    Hello Nicholas, Is it possible the REST Starter Kit's Caching feature integrate with Velocity project or another API via providers (like ASP.NET)? Best Regards

  • Anonymous
    November 06, 2008
    Hi Israel, I believe all of the caching in the starter kit is done through standard ASP.NET caching so you should be able to use the same providers.  I haven't checked to make sure that this works though.

  • Anonymous
    November 10, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2008
    Any Idea why in RequestInterceptorReplyChannelListenerBase in the WCF Starter Kit: There's a:        protected override void OnClose(TimeSpan timeout)        {            throw new NotImplementedException();        } That throws every time the WebServiceHost2's Close() method is called...?

  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2008
    Hi damageboy, Thanks for reporting this issue.  We'll try to get it fixed with the next update (should be a week or two).

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2008
    WCFRESTStarterKitprovidesfeaturesandguidancetoenablequicklydevelopingRESTfulServicesus...