WCF REST Starter Kit

Article
11/10/2008

WCF REST Starter Kit

Thought you had to wait for .NET 4.0 to get better support for RESTful services with WCF? No way! The WCF REST Starter Kit is now ready for download on CodePlex.

What is the WCF REST Starter Kit?

WCF is the framework for building services across the Microsoft Platform providing a rich set of features for building SOAP and REST services in .NET. The WCF REST Starter Kit simplifies development of REST services adding new features and guidance tightly integrated with ASP.NET and the existing WCF release in .NET 3.5 SP1.
These features include:

Caching	[WebCache] attribute provides fully integrated ASP.NET caching
Security	Implement common REST security scenarios beyond simple HTTP authentication
Forms post	Create services that accept inputs from simple HTTP forms
Content negotiation	Templates include built in support for XML / json content negotiation
X-http-method-override	Demonstrates how to tunnel PUT/DELETE over environments where these HTTP verbs are not allow by using the X-http-method-overridde
Error handling	WebException provides an exception model over the HTTP status code model
Automatic help page	Generates an ATOM service document describing your service
Conditional GET/PUT	Demonstrates how to implement conditional GET/PUT operations
Also includes Push style streaming, Type based dispatch and Semi-structured XML support