RESTful Data / ASP.NET MVC Mashup

This Month: We have Chris Eargle from the Columbia Enterprise Developer's Guild coming to Charlotte to present two topics for us.

1) RESTful Data

REST is an architectural style that allows for a layered, scalable, and cacheable enterprise information system. With ADO.NET Data Services, a database can be surfaced to a service as a REST-style resource collection that is addressable with natural URIs and can be interacted with using the usual HTTP verbs: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. This session will describe RESTful Data, the benefits it conveys, and its uses. Then we will set up a data service using an existing database that developers would then access rather than accessing the database directly.

2) Mash Up - ASP.NET MVC, Bing, Bing Map, and Flickr

Did you know that many of the technologies you use are available for consumption in your own applications? In this session, we will build an ASP.NET MVC website mashing up various resources available from around the web. We will pull businesses from Bing Phonebook and map them to a Bing Map control using their location information. Using the Bing Map control, we will allow the user to obtain directions from the location they entered. We will then use Flickr to display photos of the business.

Food will be provided.