title: Is the WCF REST Starter Kit dead in the water?
body: <p>We are looking at switching from using WCF for our service layer in applications to REST.</p>
  
  <p>So far we are assuming that the way to do this is to use the <a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfrestlabs/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2368" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WCF REST Starter Kit</a>. However this is still in Preview 2 and hasn't been updated since March 2009.</p>
  
  <p>Is this project dead in the water?</p>
  
  <p>If so, what alternatives do we have for creating .NET-based REST services? (Some are <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/584254/has-anyone-used-the-new-wcf-rest-starter-kit-successfully-and-would-you-use-it-ag/584275#584275">suggesting using ASP.NET MVC</a>, which we're already using for our UI layer)</p>
  
  <h2>Edit</h2>
  
  <p>It looks like <a href="http://aspnet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WCF%20REST" rel="nofollow noreferrer">now, the WCF REST Starter Kit is indeed dead</a>. The <a href="http://www.asp.net/web-api" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ASP.NET Web API</a> is the recommended alternative.</p>