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mythz edited this page Jun 11, 2012 · 27 revisions

Ultimately behind-the-scenes ServiceStack is just built on top of a set of Raw ASP.NET IHttpHandler's. The entry point for all ASP.NET and HttpListener requests is in the ServiceStackHttpHandlerFactory whose purpose is to return the appropriate IHttpHandler for the incoming request.

There are 2 distinct modes in any ServiceStack application:

  1. AppHost Setup and Configuration - Only done once for all services. Run only once on App StartUp.
  2. Runtime - Run on every request, uses dependencies, plugins, etc. defined in the AppHost. Each new request re-binds all IOC dependencies in your services.

This can be visualized below:

ServiceStack Overview

ServiceStack's RestHandler shows what happens during a typical ServiceStack request:

ServiceStack Request Pipeline

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  1. Getting Started
    1. Create your first webservice
    2. Your first webservice explained
    3. ServiceStack's new API Design
    4. Designing a REST-ful service with ServiceStack
    5. Example Projects Overview
  2. Reference
    1. Order of Operations
    2. The IoC container
    3. Metadata page
    4. Rest, SOAP & default endpoints
    5. SOAP support
    6. Routing
    7. Service return types
    8. Customize HTTP Responses
    9. Plugins
    10. Validation
    11. Error Handling
    12. Security
    13. Debugging
  3. Clients
    1. Overview
    2. C# client
    3. Silverlight client
    4. JavaScript client
    5. Dart Client
    6. MQ Clients
  4. Formats
    1. Overview
    2. JSON/JSV and XML
    3. ServiceStack's new HTML5 Report Format
    4. ServiceStack's new CSV Format
    5. MessagePack Format
    6. ProtoBuf Format
  5. View Engines 4. Razor & Markdown Razor
    1. Markdown Razor
  6. Hosts
    1. IIS
    2. Self-hosting
    3. Messaging
    4. Mono
  7. Security
    1. Authentication/authorization
    2. Sessions
    3. Restricting Services
  8. Advanced
    1. Configuration options
    2. Access HTTP specific features in services
    3. Logging
    4. Serialization/deserialization
    5. Request/response filters
    6. Filter attributes
    7. Concurrency Model
    8. Built-in caching options
    9. Built-in profiling
    10. Form Hijacking Prevention
    11. Auto-Mapping
    12. HTTP Utils
    13. Virtual File System
    14. Config API
    15. Physical Project Structure
    16. Modularizing Services
    17. MVC Integration
  9. Plugins 3. Request logger 4. Swagger API
  10. Tests
    1. Testing
    2. HowTo write unit/integration tests
  11. Other Languages
    1. FSharp
    2. VB.NET
  12. Use Cases
    1. Single Page Apps
    2. Azure
    3. Logging
    4. Bundling and Minification
    5. NHibernate
  13. Performance
    1. Real world performance
  14. How To
    1. Sending stream to ServiceStack
    2. Setting UserAgent in ServiceStack JsonServiceClient
    3. ServiceStack adding to allowed file extensions
    4. Default web service page how to
  15. Future
    1. Roadmap

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