A few of us keep complaining about the way the HTML5 specification is written. The argument we are given is that the HTML5 is written in a more prescriptive form to reduce the ambiguity that exists in the more traditional “declarative” style RFC documents. I’ve spent a fair bit of time reading specs over the […]
I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed on the Deep Fried Bytes podcast about practical uses of hypermedia for desktop and mobile applications. Hypermedia is one of those topics that we are all familiar within the web browser, but it tends to get forgotten when people start writing client applications. There are many ways to leverage […]
Ever since Microsoft’s first efforts to deliver a REST style framework in .net, back in 3.5, there has been a continuous stream of questions that has asked: how to I add a service reference to that API? How do I generate a client proxy? How do I access the WSDL for the REST service? Can […]
There have been a number of attempts to define a maturity model for building RESTful services. The idea of the maturity model is that is gives an indication how closely the service complies with the constraints of REST and hopefully demonstrates the trade offs to be expected when choosing to not follow a particular constraint. One area […]
Rob Conery asked for some feedback on an API he has been building for Tekpub. I know that Rob asked for URLs, and URLs he shall get, but I like to get a better understanding of the relationships between my resources before I start minting URLs for my service. On a number of occasions I […]
Along with the latest release of WCF Web API there was a updated version of HTTPClient . With it came a bunch of breaking changes, most notably, there are no more Sync methods for doing HTTP requests. This is a change that brings consistency with Microsoft’s new policy that all APIs that take more than 30ms (or is it […]
So there I was, sitting at my PC hunting some bugs when up pops John Sheehan on IM and starts asking me questions about OPTIONS and TRACE http methods. I pretty much always have the HTTP spec close at hand so I think I was able to at least fake some prior knowledge in attempting to answer […]
We all have to start somewhere, and I like to start with the simplest possible thing that works. So I created a Console application and used NuGet to pull in the WebAPI.All package which contains all my dependencies.[1] Once that was done, all I need is this: If you point a browser to http://localhost:9000 you will get your first […]
It seems everyone these days wants an API for their web application. Getting a primitive Web API up and running can be deceptively simple. However, what many people don’t realize is that with the success of an API can come a variety of problems. As developers, we are used to dealing with unforeseen problems, we […]
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