In this 4-day Building REST Architectures on .NET course, you will learn about Representational State Transfer, the architecture of the web, and how you can implement such an architecture for your own solution, not only for your web sites, but also for your services. Through the use of OpenRasta, you’ll gain practical experience in designing and developing a real application end-to-end.

Part 1

• An introduction to Representational state transfer (REST), the architecture of the web
• Designing resources, giving them URIs, and common pitfalls
• Building representations for your custom types, using xml, json and protocol buffer

Part 2

• PUT or POST? And why not PATCH? An overview of known and less known verbs
• Understanding status codes, best practices and patterns
• Using hypermedia controls: URIs, form tags and what HATEOS really means

Part 3

• Leverage ATOM feeds, RDFa and microformats in your architecture
• The caching bonanza, ETags, Last-modified and making sense of intermediaries.

Part 4

• Authentication: Http, OAuth, OpenID...
• Are cookies evil? Dealing with session data