Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours

Hour 10. Working with REST, Syndication Feeds, and OData

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Consuming REST services

• Working with syndication feeds

• Using the OData libraries

There are many different service types available on the Internet using a variety of protocols, such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Representational State Transfer (REST), and Open Data Protocol (OData). Some of these services are publicly available while others are paid services. At the end of this hour, you will have accessed a variety of publicly available services using these protocols.

Consuming REST Services

REST web services are uniform resource identifier (URI)-based services, which return data as Extensible Markup Language (XML). As a result, REST ...