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Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data is aimed at developers interested in taking advantage of the new REST–style data services that ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code–named Astoria) provides. The book shows how to incorporate ADO.NET Data Services into a wide range of common environments including BizTalk, AJAX and Silverlight client applications. The material is intended for professional developers who are comfortable with the .NET 3.5 Framework but are coming to ADO.NET Data Services for the first time and want to understand how to integrate it into their own applications and enterprise solutions. The book is packed full with extensive real–world solutions and exercises, ensuring you walk away with a deep understanding of how to use ADO.NET Data Services to your best advantage.

Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is an excellent resource for learning how to build, consume, and integrate REST-Style Data Services into real-world applications that utilize different types of client technologies. Divided into four parts, the book gets things rolling in Part One by introducing in the first three chapters foundational concepts such as: what is REST, how are RESTful Services different from SOAP-based Services, what functionalities are provided and not provided out of the box in ADO.Net Data Services (e.g., no built-in authentication mechanism, etc), what's entailed in building and consuming such services, and what are the best practices for debugging and handling concurrency, security, and service exceptions. The single chapter in Part Two provides commentaries and suggestions on how to add ADO.Net Data Services to legacy applications so that investments in existing code is preserved while creating a new path for evolving new functionalities. The next four chapters in Part Three are, for me, the meatiest part of the book. This is where the authors show you how to integrate ADO.Net Data Services with different types of client technologies such as ASP.Net, Ajax, Silverlight, Popfly Mashups and Biztalk. Each of these chapters include a discussion of the client technology, what issues you may encounter when attempting to consume ADO.Net Data Services and how to resolve or workaround those issues. The book concludes with a single chapter in Part Four discussing currently known future plans for ADO.Net Data Services and related technologies. Overall, I think the authors did a great job providing lots of information, advice, and code exercises (the zip file for which is downloadable from Apress' web site).

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