Creating a document service

As you've read, there are a lot of components that have to be created when developing a document service. You might think that creating a document service is a daunting task because of that, but fortunately that is not the case.

Microsoft has provided us with the AIF Document Service Wizard . This wizard allows you to create a document service fairly quickly based on a query you provide. In the next few pages, we will walk through all of the steps needed to create a document service using this wizard.

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The document service we will build in this chapter will allow us to demonstrate all of the service operations that are available on a document service. We will need an entity...