Hi everyone,

I am actually trying to get my head around Object-C and iOS SDK but that is a whole different nightmare.

So in my dummy apps (I am on No.2) I thought it would be good to see how to get information from a SQL Database. I understand that the MS direction is WCF after SQL Server 2008 SP1. (I know in SQL 2000 and 2005 there were some web services but these are being removed)

Thus my aim here is to create one of those cool API's where I can request information over an URL and the server sends it to me in a "RESTful" (XML/JSON) format.

So I am going though MSDN which I somehow do not find helpful plus 99% of the tutorials are in C# which is not my language for this kind of stuff - VB is.

So is anyone following me this far? Anyone recently read somthing on this for VB. Has anyone else been in this kind of situation? I kinda need to have a general chat/thread with someone on the concepts here and I have a 1000 questions but I will wait to see if anyone is interested in this topic.

I am kinda interested on what my WCF project will actually do and its interaction with my SQL database but also in the other direction what kind of "Contracts" i should expose to the consumer.

Ok no takers on a conversation. I hope I can post some info here on what I have learnt. Just to finish the thread. I am complicating things a little cause I want to have JSON returned which just does not seem to be easy for .NET and MS.