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Automatic Format Selection in WCF RESTful service

WCF RESTful Service

In .NET framework 4.0, Automatic Format Selection feature is introduced by AutomaticFormatSelectionEnabled property of WebHttpBehavior class. The purpose is to dynamically find out and return the response in appropriate format for a service operation. If the value of this property is set to “true” means using Automatic Format Selection, the response format of the operation… Read More »

CRUD Operations using WCF RESTful Service – Part 1

WCF Service Application

REST (Representational State Transfer) is basically an architectural style that is based on the same principles as that of “Web”. In this WCF Service tutorial we are going to see these web principles in action. We will be using standard HTTP verbs for CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations, HTTP Content-Types etc.In one of my… Read More »