• StackOverflow - hashtag ServiceStack (Ask here if you need help!)
• JabbR ServiceStack chat room (Ask here if you need help! with short questions)
• The Example projects are highly recommended!
• User group (Only general discussion!)

• ServiceStack Release Notes
• Architecture Overview
• Official ServiceStack website
• Trello board (View current project status | To-do/Doing)

• ServiceStack's packages available on NuGet
• or, the latest ServiceStack dll's

• Contributors Special thanks to all of ServiceStack's Contributors
• Community-Resources (Blog Posts, Gists, StackOverflow, Pod casts...)
• How to contribute (say thanks to ServiceStack!)

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

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

0. Why ServiceStack?

   1. Advantages of message based web services

1. Getting Started

   1. ServiceStack's new API Design
   2. Create your first webservice
   3. Your first webservice explained
   4. The IoC container
   5. Metadata page
   6. Rest, SOAP & default endpoints
   7. SOAP support
   8. Service return types
   9. Plugins
   10. 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. MessagePack Format
   6. ProtoBuf Format

4. View Engines 4. Razor & Markdown Razor

5. Hosts

   1. IIS
   2. Self-hosting
   3. Mono
      • Run ServiceStack as a daemon on Linux
      • Run ServiceStack in Fastcgi hosted on nginx
      • Linux-Hosting-Options

6. Advanced

   1. Configuration options
      • 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

7. Plugins

   1. Sessions
   2. Authentication/authorization (new!)
      • Open Id 2.0 Support
   3. Request logger

8. HowTo write unit/integration tests