Creating a ServiceStack solution with Visual Studio and NuGet

We'll use Visual Studio in the examples within this book. If you don't have access to Visual Studio 2013 Professional or higher, it's highly recommended that you use Microsoft's new free version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio Community Edition 2013. The community edition enables the use of extensions. ServiceStack has its own Visual Studio extension called ServiceStackVS, which is available from within Visual Studio or via the Visual Studio Gallery.

If you are currently stuck with a Visual Studio Express version or an earlier version of Visual Studio, such as Visual Studio 2010, this appendix will walk you through the steps to get you started from an empty project. Everything in this appendix can be done from a ServiceStackVS project template. Check out the Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition at the Visual Studio website at http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs.

Once you have Visual...