WCF Web API–Preview 4
At PDC 2010, Glenn Block announced a new WCF based library for building Web based Application Programming Interfaces (API) – the WCF Web API. One of it goals is to provide a “first class experience” for using HTTP. The first preview of this library, including source code, was published at http://wcf.codeplex.com.
This week, at MIX 11, the WCF Web API Preview 4 was finally published, providing a more matured programming model and implementation. The source code is also available on a Mercurial repository. To clone it, just do hg clone https://hg01.codeplex.com/wcf.
In the next posts, I will present an overview of this new WCF library.
- Elementary programming model
- Self-hosting
- Self-hosting, HTTPS and HTTP Basic Authentication
- IIS Hosting
- HTTP Message classes
- Processing architecture
- HTTP Content classes
- Description model
- Handling requests asynchronously
- Message Handlers
- Operation Handlers
Note: Preview 5 was released on September, 2011. The next posts and demos are based on this new release.
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