Category Archives: WCF RESTful Service

How RESTful API Can Used Effectively For Mobile Solutions?

The world is transforming into a digital space powered by emerging technologies such as SMAC (i.e. a combination of social networking, mobile computing, analytics and cloud computing). These technologies act as the force that helps drive business innovation. So, if your enterprise IT team still do not have a roadmap ready for the emerging mobile… Read More »

Automatic Format Selection in 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

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 »