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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is fully established as a powerful tool for creating and delivering Rich Internet Applications and media experiences on the Web. This book will help you dive straight into utilizing Silverlight 5, which now more than ever is a top choice in the Enterprise for building Business Applications. "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" focuses on the development of a complete Silverlight 5 LOB application, helping you to take advantage of the powerful features available along with expert advice. Fully focused on LOB development, this expert guide takes you from the beginning of designing and implementing a Silverlight 5 LOB application, all the way through to completion. Accompanied by a gradually built upon case study, you will learn about data access via RIA and Web services, architecture with MEF and MVVM applied to LOB development, testing and error control, and much more.With "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" in hand, you will be fully equipped to expertly develop your own Silverlight Line of Business application, without dwelling on the basics of Enterprise Silverlight development.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Consuming a public API web service


The second part of this chapter is devoted to the other main type of web services, that is, the REST services . As mentioned previously, we can briefly define them as the creation of web services over HTTP protocol with minimum overload. REST (Representational State Transfer) is a complete architecture for building software defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer (http://bit.ly/nnTsYp). We are not covering it, but we will learn how to consume a public REST service.

Typically, most of modern public API web services rely on:

  • Defining requests via URL parameters (both path and query string)

  • Simplifying response complexity and weight using formats as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) instead of XML

  • Making use of HTTP verbs with full semantic, such as GET for reading, PUT for adding or updating, and DELETE for erasing

These are also common principles in the REST architecture, but they should not be confused. Here...