Tanuj Mathur and I presented at the .NET Unboxed conference about alternative web frameworks for .NET. We compared and contrasted Nancy, ServiceStack and ASP.NET WebAPI. The conference recorded it and published it on YouTube. Check it out! Continue reading
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ServiceStack 4 Cookbook
If you are a .NET developer who is looking for a simpler way to build services, this is the book for you. It will show you how to write fast, maintainable APIs that are a pleasure to use and maintain starting from the database to the client and everything in-between. Comprehensive coverage of the Redis library, … Continue reading
ServiceStack 4 HTTP Utilities: Functional Contract Testing
ServiceStack 4 HTTP Utilities: Functional Contract Testing ServiceStack 4 comes with some really great new tools for accessing an HTTP resource using a fluent syntax. They make a great addition – sometimes the JsonServiceClient (often just called the C# client) is a little too smart! For instance, let’s say you’ve published a specification saying how … Continue reading
JqueryMobile and Service Stack Events Manager Tutorial Post 3
In our previous post, we covered the basics of setting up Visual Studio to support our project – adding Service Stack, removing demo classes we don’t need, and plugging in our basic model and services – we even copied a basic JQueryMobile app.html in to our project. However, we haven’t done anything yet. In today’s … Continue reading
JqueryMobile and Service Stack Events Manager Tutorial Post 2
In a previous post, I wrote about making a simple web back using ServiceStack back end that could serve up information about upcoming events. We automatically got SOAP, JSON, CSV and other end points. In today’s post, we’re going to look at a technique to consume them. Want more on ServiceStack? ServiceStack 4 Cookbook contains … Continue reading
Like WCF: Only Cleaner
I’ve been working with the Service Stack framework recently. Service Stack is a great SOA framework for building REST (and RPC) based web services – lots of the great things about WCF are in there – but they fixed lots of the problems. The thing that initially attracted me to it, is that it does … Continue reading
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