This post is about leveraging the LLBLGen Pro and ServiceStack tools to allow users to use the existing LLBLGen Adapter API on the client to manage, manipulate, query and update entities on remote servers, across database platforms even (SQL, MySql, Oracle, etc…). This allows LLBLGen users to fully take advantage of the query API they are familiar with and write code manipulating entities as if they were on the server.
Recently, while building a custom service application in SharePoint, I was exploring various ways of creating a web API, hosted within SharePoint. Obviously, using WCF is the standard in SharePoint, but it certainly is not the only way. In this post we will create the barebone essentials for building out a web service API, hosted within SharePoint 2010, using ServiceStack.
