REST WCF Service in ASP.NET

Learn how to build a RESTful WCF Service in an ASP.NET web application and call its methods with JQuery.

Created byPatrick God

Last updated 6/2016

English

What you'll learn

Build a RESTful WCF Service from the ground up
Set up the Web.config and all necessary attributes and references
Make GET & POST HTTP Requests with JQuery & AJAX
Use and serialize custom classes with the WCF Service

Course content

1 section • 5 lectures • 41m total length

Introduction1:17
The situation you might be in and you will learn in this course.
By the end of this course, you will be able to build the REST WCF Service by yourself, make GET & POST HTTP Requests with JQuery & AJAX and use your own custom classes with your new web service.
Building the WCF Service13:35
Create a new project in Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, add the WCF Service and make your first GET HTTP request.
A simple GET HTTP Request with JQuery7:15
Instead of the address bar of your browser, you will use JQuery and AJAX to make the GET HTTP request with a button in your web application.
A POST HTTP Request with JQuery6:43
The next step is to send data to the service and get a result back. Let's do POST HTTP requests.
Using custom classes with your WCF Service12:29
In this lecture you will learn how to use and serialize your custom classes with the REST WCF Service.

Requirements

Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition (free!)
Other versions of Visual Studio also work, but might be slightly different
You should have a little experience in building web applications in ASP.NET
You should have a little experience in C#

Description

In this course you will learn how to build a RESTful WCF Service in an ASP.NET web application. You will use Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, which is completely free. Whether you are new to WCF services or already have built a SOAP service and need to convert it to a REST service doesn't matter, you will build your new service from the ground up. What you already should have is a little experience in C#. Having some knowledge in JQuery and building web applications in general might help, but is not a must.

By the end of this course, you will be able to build the REST WCF Service by yourself, make GET & POST HTTP Requests with JQuery & AJAX and use your own custom classes with your new web service.

All source codes are available for download, of course.

Who this course is for:

This course is for students who have no experience in building a REST WCF Service or already have built a SOAP WCF Service and need to convert it