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 »
REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style that dictates to think in terms of resources and their representation instead of just thinking about methods within a system. REST architecture focuses almost on the same set of constraints like Uniform interface, separation of concerns, caching, statelessness etc. as other distributed architecture follow. Using REST, we get… Read More »
The POST request method is basically designed to post data to a web server for storage. That’s why its normally used when submitting a complete form. In this WCF RESTful service tutorial, I’ll try to explain how we can post JSON data to a WCF RESTful service using jQuery Ajax call with POST type. We… Read More »
WCF possesses the capability to handle errors for RESTful services and return appropriate HTTP status code as well as error details using standard formats like JSON or XML. So, WebFaultException is the class used to return: HTTP status code only, or HTTP status code and user-defined type. We can define a custom type for error… Read More »
In previous part of this WCF Tutorial, we created a WCF RESTful service step by step and make it available to be consumed by a client. Here in this part, we will write and understand code to consume the RESTful web service using jQuery. Same like previous part, I will write complete jQuery code for… Read More »
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 »
With the start of a brand new year 2014, I would like to wish a very happy new year to everyone and wishes that the following year gets filled with more successful personal and work achievements. I would like to share some experiences of this WCF tutorial blog in previous year with all my readers.… Read More »
jQuery possess the functionality that simplifies the AJAX call for a RESTful service.So, when we think about consuming a RESTful service and then rendering received XML/JSON data in a Web Application, jQuery automatically becomes a good option.In this WCF tutorial, we are going to call a simple RESTful service using a GET request and then… Read More »
RESTful services are those which follow the REST (Representational State Transfer) architectural style. Before implementing your first RESTful service, lets first understand the concept behind it. As we know that WCF allows us to make calls and exchange messages using SOAP over a variety of protocols i.e. HTTP, TCP, Named Pipes and MSMQ etc. In… Read More »
This WCF tutorial is part-3 in series of WCF Interview Questions and Answers. Other parts in this series are as follows: WCF Service Interview Questions – Part 1 WCF Service Interview Questions – Part 2 WCF Service Interview Questions – Part 3 WCF Service Interview Questions – Part 4 WCF Interview Questions List – Part 3 What is a fault contract? A user… Read More »