REST Webservice with Visual Studio 2005

Question

Hello

I'm trying to write a REST Webservice with VS2005 and .NET 2.0  in C#.
I was happy to find an example on http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/RESTWebServicesPart2.aspx, because I'm not experienced in ASP.NET, but this example was developed with VS2008.

I tried to import the project to VS2005, but it did not work.
I started a new project in VS2005
New>>Website>>ASP.NET Web Site

It created a folder  App_Data, a file Default.aspx and another file called Default.aspx.cs, which i deleted and then replaced
with the folders RESTHandlers and RESTService and the file Web.config.


  The Web.config file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
	<system.web>
		<compilation debug="true">
		</compilation>
		<httpHandlers>
			<clear/>
			<add verb="PUT" path="*" validate="false" type="RESTHandlers.PutHandler, RESTHandlers"/>
			<add verb="POST" path="*" validate="false" type="RESTHandlers.PostHandler, RESTHandlers"/>
			<add verb="GET" path="*" validate="false" type="RESTHandlers.GetHandler, RESTHandlers"/>
			<add verb="DELETE" path="*" validate="false" type="RESTHandlers.DeleteHandler, RESTHandlers"/>
		</httpHandlers>
	</system.web>
	<system.codedom>
	</system.codedom>
</configuration>

In the RestHandlers folder are the handlers as you can see in the Web.config.

Then i compiled the project and it works, but when i start the service and call it with http://127.0.0.1:18103/RESTService/contact/4 it doesn't seem to work.

The link is from the project above. The questions are: Where can i see the url  in iis with which i can call my service. Do i have to copy the bin directory to another place, although it is okay for me to run the service from VS?

Kind regards,
ClaudeMichelle

Answer 1

Hello

I solved the problem with a ashx file(file>new>file...>generic handler).
For example:

<%@ WebHandler Language="C#" Class="GetHandler" %>

using System;
using System.Web;

public class GetHandler : IHttpHandler {
    
    public void ProcessRequest (HttpContext context) 
    {
        context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
        context.Response.Write("Hello World");
    }
 
    public bool IsReusable {
        get {
            return false;
        }
    }

}