What Data Service to use + simple Example (WPF C# SQL)

Question

We have WPF Applications and we want to develop some Xamarin Apps too. What we need is a Data Service that's not WCF (because it doesn't work with Xamarin). I am clueless since I have never worked with a Data Service.

What can I use that works with both WPF and Xamarin Applications?

Where can it run?

Are there any simple examples?

Answer 1

WCF is working in xamarin => https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/cross-platform/data-cloud/web-services/walkthrough-working-with-wcf But if you want to use something else that have a look on asp.net web api for a rest => https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/data-cloud/consuming/rest

Answer 2

any restful service including WCF and web api or even java etc will work with any xamarin client