Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server 2015 REST APIs

If you’ve been following Microsoft announcements about Visual Studio Online over the last 12 months, you already know that you can easili integrate with VSO from any platform, technology, or device. Everything thanks to a new set of of JSON-based REST APIs. Those APIs enable a lightweight way to work with Team Foundation Server from virtually any device, platform, or technology…

By Dawid on (tags: api, hooks, online, REST, service, studio, tfs, visual, categories: tools, infrastructure, code)

Simple WCF. RESTful and SOAP endpoint at one contract.

REST (Representational state transfer) web service is a service over HTTP with specific architecture. The REST is then an architectural style, which defines the rules of accessing resources exposed in the web. In principle the restful service exposes some sort of resource, for instance collection of entities, which can be easily accessed and changed from external client. To be …

By Mirek on (tags: REST, SOAP, WCF, web service, categories: code)