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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)

Documentation

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

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
   1. Run ServiceStack side-by-side with another web framework
6. Logging
7. Serialization/deserialization
8. Request/response filters
9. Filter attributes (new!)
10. Built-in caching options
11. Validation (new!)
12. Sessions
13. Authentication/authorization (new!)
14. Built-in profiling
15. Messaging and Redis
16. HowTo write unit/integration tests