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Welcome to the ServiceStack wiki!

Getting Started

1. Get an overview in the introduction slides
2. Read the documentation down here.
3. Download ServiceStack's packages available on NuGet and start programming yourself!
4. The Example projects are highly recommended!

Resources

• ServiceStack Release Notes
• Official ServiceStack website
• User group (Ask here if you need help!)
• Jabbr ServiceStack chat room (Ask here if you need help!)
• Trello board (View current project status | To-do/Doing)
• External-Resources (Blog Posts, Gists, StackOverflow, Pod casts...)
• How to contribute (say thanks to ServiceStack!)

Documentation

This is the documentation about the core web service framework. The documentation for the Redis client, ORMLite etc can be found here.

Before you start reading, you should know the basics about HTTP (HTTP methods/verbs, status codes etc) and REST/SOAP. Look at Prerequisites for a link list about these topics.

0. Why ServiceStack?
1. Basics
   1. Create your first webservice
   2. Your first webservice explained
   3. The IoC container
   4. Metadata page
   5. Rest, SOAP & default endpoints
   6. SOAP support
   7. Service return types
   8. Plugins
   9. Validation and Exception handling (new!)
2. Clients
   1. Overview
   2. C# client
   3. JavaScript client
   4. Silverlight client
3. Formats
   1. Overview
   2. JSON/JSV and XML
   3. ServiceStack's new HTML5 Report Format
   4. ServiceStack's new CSV Format
   5. Markdown Razor
   6. ProtoBuf Format
4. Hosts
   1. IIS
   2. Self-hosting
   3. Mono
5. Advanced
   1. Configuration options
      1. Run ServiceStack side-by-side with another web framework
   2. Access HTTP specific features in services
   3. Logging
   4. Serialization/deserialization
   5. Request/response filters
   6. Filter attributes (new!)
   7. Built-in caching options
   8. Built-in profiling
   9. Messaging and Redis
6. Plugins
   1. Sessions
   2. Authentication/authorization (new!)
7. HowTo write unit/integration tests

The wiki index is currently under development, that's why not all tutorials exist.