If you have played with the ADO.NET Data Service, you can experience how quickly you can build RESTful Services using the Entity Model and then consume them as you would do it with WCF Services. The ADO.NET Data Services offer more flexibility in terms of granular data URIs compared to REST enabling your WCF Service. To begin with, if you are REST enabling your WCF Service using the WCF REST Starter Kit, you can enable your service to basic level of REST features. However, if you want to make this service as a drill down data URI mechanism to ensure each and every data item has a URI, you need to do a lot of plumbing work. With ADO.NET Data Services, there is very little work that you would need to do, to create a truly RESTful Service. To begin...(read more) ...
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