Someone asked me recently a quick question on how to set up a RESTful service to return JSON instead of XML. Th person already had a RESTful service they had created in WCF that returned XML, so most of the hard work was done already. This was a quick answer (nice to have a quick question/answer onc

I’ll be presenting a MSDN Firestarter event on Silverlight 2 at the Microsoft Office in Tampa, FL on Friday October 24th [https://www.johnpapa.net/events]. This is a free event, you just have to register [http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032387218&culture=en-US] onlin

I was talking to Shawn Wildermuth [http://wildermuth.com] tonight and he gave me a great tip about using Fiddler [http://wildermuth.com/2008/06/07/Debugging_ADO_NET_Data_Services_with_Fiddler2] to sniff our calls to my services running on my Cassini web server. I am testing some REST styled WCF ser

One of the frustrations I have is the common confusion over REST services and POX services for those trying to understand it from scratch. It does not help that some popular services that claim to be REST or technically POX. Flickr is one of these IMO. REST services expose resources through a uri ma

I mentioned the other day [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/a-new-look-for-my-graffiti-cms-theme/] that I grabbed the free Embouteillage theme from the Atlanta .NET Guys web site [http://www.devcow.com/blogs/adnrg/archive/2008/02/22/10-new-graffiti-cms-themes.aspx] , modified it, and ….. that’s what yo