REST WCF Service for Web Applications in ASP.NET Hands-On

Build a modern REST/restful WCF Service for web applications with ASP.NET & jQuery - First success within 10 minutes!

Created by: Patrick God
Passionate Software Developer & Teacher

What Will I Learn?

• Build a restful WCF service from the ground up
• Understand the configurations file for the service
• Use and implement HTTP Request Methods or verbs for a restful communication like GET, POST, PUT & DELETE
• Use the Google Chrome developer tools and read the network communications
• Implement all CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
• Implement custom requests like searching or sorting and use the RequestURI to your advantage, e.g. by passing arguments in the URL or in the body of your request
• Debug your C# and also JavaScript code in Visual Studio
• Send status codes (like 404 Not Found) back to the client and react to them properly

Requirements

• You should know a little C# & JavaScript
• You should have a little experience in building web applications
• Tools you need: Visual Studio (Community Edition is sufficient) and a browser with developer tools such as Google Chrome

Target audience

• Developers who have or want to build restful WCF services for any kind of web application
• Developers who have or want to fix, maintain or implement new features to existing WCF services