Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010: Expert Cookbook

Chapter 6. Web Services and REST

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Getting data through REST
• Filtering list data
• Fiddling with Fiddler
• Creating a REST consumer
• Inserting new contacts through REST
• Creating a custom SharePoint WCF service

Introduction

The web services expose common functionality of the SharePoint that can be utilized by the client applications to extract and input data to SharePoint sites. If these exposed web services, do not provide you with the necessary functionality, you can always create custom web services that use the SharePoint object model.

Web services can be developed, using the old ASP.NET style by creating the .ASMX files or the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. Using WCF, you can create either the SOAP style or ...