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Asked: 2026-05-13T16:38:35+00:00

A business partner has suggested building a web services library with JSON-RPC rather that

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A business partner has suggested building a web services library with JSON-RPC rather that SOAP. (note they are not building in .NET necessarily, but I am)

I am a potential consumer of this data.

I’ve used JSON for client-based Ajax calls in the past, but this web services library will be used primarily for server-side calls and syncing large amounts of data.

I don’t have much experience with JSON-RPC.

Questions:

  • Can I easily build a JSON-RPC
    consumer in .NET?
  • Are JSON-RPC web services self
    documenting and discoverable, like a
    SOAP WSDL?
  • Can I easily add a Web Reference in
    Visual Studio to a JSON-RPC web service?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Can I easily build a JSON-RPC consumer
    in .NET?

    Yes. JSON-RPC services are simple to consume as long as you have a robust JSON parser or formatter. Jayrock provides a simple client implementation JsonRpcClicnet that you can use to build a consumer. There is also a small demo sample included.

    Are JSON-RPC web services self
    documenting and discoverable, like a
    SOAP WSDL?

    No, there is nothing standardized but there are ideas being floated around like Service Mapping Description Proposal.

    Can I easily add a Web Reference in
    Visual Studio to a JSON-RPC web
    service?

    This can work if the server-side implementation provides a WSDL-based description of the JSON-RPC service but none are known to provide this to date.

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