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(More customer reviews)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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ADO.NET Data Services (formerly known as ‘Astoria') is a widely anticipated set of components and classes that improve the ability of applications to gain access to data over networks and internet protocols. This book introduces ADO.NET Data Services and explores how to architect and implement solutions that use this technology.As more applications and platforms operate in distributed environments and over the internet, it is essential that developers understand how to work with ADO.NET Data Services. Readers will be exposed to numerous examples of incorporating and using the technology with existing platforms and applications, including web sites, financial systems, integration platforms, document management portals, and custom windows applications.
