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Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook Over 30 recipes for storing, managing, and manipulating data in Windows Phone 7.5 Mango applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849691222
Length 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ramesh Thalli Ramesh Thalli
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Introduction


The beauty of the World Wide Web is its simplicity in addressing any resource using a simple URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) wherever it exists or whatever type it may be. This architectural success is the basis of Representational State Transfer (REST).

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the most simple, scalable, stateless, and open protocol used on the Web. The two most popular verbs used are GET and POST. GET returns a specific resource requested, while POST creates a new resource. REST services provide simple URI access to resources exposed over HTTP. REST supports four HTTP verbs: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. Unlike POST, PUT modifies an existing resource. DELETE removes the resource. In this chapter let's explore different providers such as CNN and Twitter, and build a simple REST service.

Different types of content or media are available like the following popular ones:

  • XML – application/xml

  • RSS – application/rss+xml

  • ATOM – application/atom+xml

  • JSON – application/json...

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