We use a XML namespace to avoid name conflicts. With a namespace we can more specifically point to an element in a XML structure. In LINQ to XML a namespace is represented by the XNamespace class. In the code snippet below we simply add a fictive namespace to the list of cars we created in the previous example. More…
In the System.Xml.Linq namespace we find a lot of handy classes for creating and manipulating XML structures and files. XDocument respresents a complete XML structure with nodes (XNode) being elements (XElement) having attributes (XAttribute). More…
Representational State Transfer (REST) is a Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) style based on the existing design of HTTP. We call resources instead of operations (as we do with SOAP). REST has a hypertext driven API with a predefined set of operations (GET, PUT, POST, or DELETE) for each uri. More…
In the previous post we moved the config code into a App.config file. Now let’s configure the bindings for the EchoService. A WCF binding for a Service Endpoint, combines the transport protocol (MSMQ, HTTP, TCP…), message format (JSON, XML, MTOM…) and message protocol (none, WS, SOAP…). More…