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Digg released their API yesterday - I haven’t really done much with RESTful web services because in the .net world, most of the time SOAP/WSDL is used. I thought a very basic RESTful web service project would be useful for other .net developers.

This example gets a list of all topics that digg offers. The code is pretty simple:

// Create the web request, change the appkey to for your applications
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://services.digg.com/topics?appkey=http%3A%2F%2Fgaskell.org") as HttpWebRequest;

// won't get a response from digg if UserAgent is not set
request.UserAgent = ".net"; 

// Get response
using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
     // Get the response stream
     StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

     DataSet ds = new DataSet();
     ds.ReadXml(reader);

     this.topicsGridView.DataSource = ds.Tables[1];
     this.topicsGridView.DataBind();
}    

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