Question

I am wanting to build a Restful API using WCF however I am struggling to make a decision on how to accomplish this.

The WCF Rest Starter Kit was developed for .Net 3.5 and has not progressed past Preview 2. Although it can be used within the current .NET Framework and within Visual Studio 2010 it seems from my research to be dead in the water and superseded by the new WCF Web API which is currently in Preview 5.

On the other hand the WCF Web API is only at preview stage and should not really be used in a production application as many things could possibly change before its release. There is also no indication if its nearing completion and if it’s going to be in the next .NET Framework release and when that is intended to be.

I find myself between rock and a hard place and look to the wider community to provide me with some guidance on this if at all possible.

Answer 1

Using ASP.NET MVC for building a Restful API should be straight forward and easy way to do it.

However I’ve used WCF Web Api with WCF Rest Contrib in production without any problems.

See

• Creating REST API with ASP.NET MVC that can speak both JSON and Plain Xml
• RESTful Services With ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET MVC – Create easy REST API with JSON and XML