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WebReference Update: June 18, 2007

New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:

FEATURE: Basic SOA Using REST

OTHER VOICES:

• Black Belt Administration: Reporting Services Configuration Manager
• Using the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block in ASP.NET: Part 2
• Building a User Control that Displays RSS Feeds Using a DataList and an XmlDataSource Control

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FEATURE: Basic SOA Using REST

This week you'll learn about the basics of implementing SOA components using the REST paradigm. REST stands for Representational State Transfer. For simple applications, REST is an easy way to get started.

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OTHER VOICES

• Black Belt Administration: Reporting Services Configuration Manager

  Use the Reporting Services Configuration Manager to manage a report server deployment. BI Architect Bill Pearson provides an overview of the various settings provided within this centralized maintenance tool.
  Database Journal

• Using the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block in ASP.NET: Part 2

  The first part of Alex Homer's article on using the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block in ASP.NET examined its built-in validators, configuring validation rule sets, and using validation rule sets. The second part builds on these topics and discusses validating data from a web service and UI validation integration in ASP.NET.
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• Building a User Control that Displays RSS Feeds Using a DataList and an XmlDataSource Control

  This article, by Scott Mitchell, examines how to build a User Control that, using the ASP.NET 2.0 XmlDataSource control and a DataList, displays items from an RSS feed.