In this post I want to get a basic web service up and running. I’ll start off simple with a read only feature. Many database backed .Net applications use GUIDs as identifiers for their entities. Unfortunately, a number of client technologies cannot generate truly unique identifiers, for instance Flash based clients. Two possible solutions are:

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My View of a RESTful Web Service

Early in 2008 I attended a presentation by Tim Ewald in which he introduced his take on RESTful web services. I’d come across them before, but he provided the momentum for me to look more closely at them. I spent some time reading around the idea and bought the bible on the subject, RESTful Web Services.

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