I'm having a little-bit of confusion properly understanding how WCF services generate there XML (or JSON) payload for POST RESTful services. I have such a service that I wrote, and depending on the ...

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Until REST APIs came along, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) was the de facto standard protocol on which web services were based. When working in ASP.Net Core, you might well encounter the need to ...

Developers today were still weighing in on a recent Microsoft decision to switch directions on OData support to focus on ASP.NET Web API instead of WCF Data Services, angering many who had invested ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

When designing the service layer in your applications the choice of the technology to be used in the service layer depends on many factors. In this article, I will present a discussion on when and how ...