Access Sitecore items via .NET web service

Question

Has anyone had luck with using a .NET web service to access Sitecore items? I have a number of web applications on my server that are still in Coldfusion. I'd like to be able to call a web service to pull down items, but when I tried to do this I got an exception "Sitecore.Data.Items.Item cannot be serialized because it does not have a parameterless constructor."

Answer 1

Take a look at Sitecore standard web service, you can find it under /sitecore/shell/WebService folder of your solution. It offers some basic operations with Sitecore items and fields, but it is often enough for pulling or saving data.

Hope this helps.