WCF Web Services & iOS - Introduction
By Mike Gledhill
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Damn.
I really hoped that I wouldn't need to write a lengthy set of articles about WCF Web Services, and getting an iOS device to talk to them. Given the number of years that both technologies have been around, I would've hoped enough clear, easy to follow and complete articles had been written already.
Apparently not.
To-do list
On the following pages, I'm going to annoy both Microsoft and Apple, by showing how to synchronise data from Microsoft's beloved
Northwind SQL Server database onto an iPhone.
It's what they would've wanted.
Along the way, we are going to learn:
- How to create your first JSON WCF Web Service in Visual Studio 2010.
- How to get your JSON WCF web service to return data from SQL Server.
- How to write a JSON WCF web service to save data back to SQL Server, and test it using Fiddler.
- How to write iOS code to retrieve data from these services.
- How to create an ASP.Net page to create JSON data, and to use some JQuery/JavaScript to display it.
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