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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

• Why ServiceStack?
• What is a message based web service?
• Advantages of message based web services
• Why remote services should use separate Data Transfer Objects

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. How to design a Message-Based API
   6. 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

   • Razor Notes
   • View and Template Selection
   • Razor Views vs Content Pages
   • Self-Hosted Razor Views
   • Theming Razor Views
   5. Markdown Razor

6. Hosts

   1. IIS
   2. Self-hosting
   3. Messaging
      • Messaging and Redis
      • Rabbit MQ
   4. Mono
      • Run ServiceStack as a daemon on Linux
      • Run ServiceStack in Fastcgi hosted on nginx
      • Linux-Hosting-Options

7. Security

   1. Authentication/authorization
      • Open Id 2.0 Support
   2. Sessions
   3. Restricting Services

8. 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
   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