Chapter 22. Providing RESTful Services with WCF Data Services

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Create model-based data services

  • Understand REST and its interaction with a data service

  • Make database queries using specially constructed URIs

The Internet is a disconnected world. Except for brief moments of connectivity, web pages spend most of their time separated from the servers that provide their data. This reality makes it difficult, if not impossible, to implement a traditional client-server or n-tier database application. Instead, some Web-based applications use a new service-oriented model of requesting and updating data at the server.

This chapter introduces some ADO.NET-related technologies that take advantage of this service-focused ...

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