The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as Asynchronous Java and XML (AJAX) and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in how applications are organized, including a stronger separation of presentation from data. The goal of ADO.NET Data Services is to enable applications to expose data as a Representational State Transfer (REST)-based data service that can be consumed by Web clients within a corporate network and across the Internet. The data service is reachable over HTTP, and uniform resource identifiers (URIs) are used to identify the various pieces of information available through the service. Interactions with the data service happen in terms of HTTP verbs, such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE, and the data exchanged in those interactions is represented in simple formats, such as ATOM/APP and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
Presented by Lindsay Rutter
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