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Welcome to the ServiceStack wiki!

Getting Started

1. Get an overview in the introduction slides
2. View the Hello World tutorial to see how to create a web service from scratch
3. The MonoTouch Tutorial is another geared towards calling web services from MonoTouch however the content should equally apply in most C# apps.
4. Download ServiceStack's packages available on NuGet and start programming yourself!
5. 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)

Wiki Index

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

Before you start reading, you should know the basics about HTTP (HTTP methods/verbs, status codes etc) and REST/SOAP.

• Wikipedia article about HTTP and HTTP verbs

• HTTP status codes
• HTTP headers
• REST wikipedia article
• SOAP wikipedia article

0. Why should I use ServiceStack?
1. Basics
   1. Create your first webservice
   2. The IoC container
   3. Metadata page
   4. Endpoints
   5. Services and return types
2. Clients
   1. Overview
   2. C# client
   3. JavaScript 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
4. Exception handling
5. Configuration options
6. Serialization/deserialization
7. Request/response filters
8. Filter attributes (new!)
9. Built-in caching options
10. Validation (new!)
11. Sessions
12. Authentication/authorization (new!)
13. Built-in profiling
14. Messaging and Redis
15. HowTo write unit/integration tests