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I have an iOS4 app I am developing and data is stored in a SQLite database.
I would like the ability to submit local data from the app to a global SQL Server database on an ASP.NET website.
My initial thought was to create a web service on the ASP.NET site that is consumed by the app. My experience developing web services is limited so I was wondering if this is a sound idea, what obstacles there are, or if there might be a better approach.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Web Services work great. We use SOAP and return XML, but you could use JSON, you’d just need a JSON Serializer. Check out http://json.codeplex.com/ for that. Web Services are nice, because they abstract a lot of the business logic that may be necessary to get / send data to the SQL Database. Also, they prevent direct access to your SQL Server.