Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax)

Let's begin from a hypothetical example that we want to publish a simple product catalog as an ATOM feed. The product table schema in our database was initially designed as follows,

In my previous post "REST and Workflow services play well together", I mentioned that Http Cookies were one of the built-in mechanisms for transferring the workflow context across calls between the client and the service. While cookies work well for http services, from my point of view, simple Http Headers naturally fit better in a REST architecture. As consequence, I decided to extend the WCF channel stack to support a new a custom channel (Or custom binding) for transferring the workflow context as a http header.

REST is not just about CRUD interfaces for your services, a complete long-running workflow can be modeled through the basic verbs as well. As my friend Jesus mentioned, the article "How to get a cup of coffee" represents an excellent source about this topic.

According to the Http specification, any Http GET request should be idempotent and safe. In this context, these principles have the following meaning:

The next Microsoft Codecamp will take place in Buenos Aires on Saturday, October 4th.

Zermatt is the framework recently released by Microsoft to develop claim-aware applications. You can find some announcements here and here.

I decided to write this post to show how cool is Autofac for doing dependency injection in the ASP.NET MVC framework. Autofac, for me the Moq stepbrother  in the dependency injection arena because of its very-easy-to-use fluent interface and nice support of lambda expressions, comes with a built-in ASP.NET module to automatically intercept the creation of the controllers and pass the required dependencies to them, the only thing a programmer has to do is to provide instances of those dependencies or expressions to build them.

One of the most nicest things about JQuery - in addition to the powerful mechanism it provides to manipulate the HTML DOM - is the great number of very useful plugins available out there.