Rest Starter Kit in Visual Studio 2010

Question

Is there a way to use the Rest Starter Kit in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2? I installed the starter kit but cannot see the templates anywhere.

Thxs.

Answer 1

The Release Notes of the REST Starter Kit only shows that it only support Visual Studio 2008.

The starter kit supports Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on 32 bit or 64 bit Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. The starter kit uses RSS feeds, which are supported on Internet Explorer 7 or later. Using Internet Explorer 6 is not recommended. If you are using IIS to publish your Web site or Web application, it is recommended to use IIS 7. The starter kit will successfully install on Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions, however its full feature set may not be supported.

Answer 2

Just FYI, instead of using the REST Starter kit, you might want to check out the lastest bits from the WCF Community site. The starter kit gets you part way there, and is sufficient for very simple things, but (from personal experience) isn't all that great for much beyond that.

The bits I mentioned above run on top of the REST support in WCF but make the entire development process a lot cleaner and add a lot of needed query standardization.