Consuming JSON-RPC web services in .NET
Can I easily build a JSON-RPC consumer in .NET?
Yes. JSON-RPC services are simple to consume as long as you have a robust JSON parser or formatter. Jayrock provides a simple client implementation JsonRpcClicnet that you can use to build a consumer. There is also a small demo sample included.
Are JSON-RPC web services self documenting and discoverable, like a SOAP WSDL?
No, there is nothing standardized but there are ideas being floated around like Service Mapping Description Proposal.
Can I easily add a Web Reference in Visual Studio to a JSON-RPC web service?
This can work if the server-side implementation provides a WSDL-based description of the JSON-RPC service but none are known to provide this to date.
Check out Jayrock.
Jayrock is a modest and an open source (LGPL) implementation of JSON and JSON-RPC for the Microsoft .NET Framework, including ASP.NET. What can you do with Jayrock? In a few words, Jayrock allows clients, typically JavaScript in web pages, to be able to call into server-side methods using JSON as the wire format and JSON-RPC as the procedure invocation protocol. The methods can be called synchronously or asynchronously.
Can I easily build a JSON-RPC consumer in .NET?
Shouldn't be difficult as long as you know what you're doing.
Are JSON-RPC web services self documenting and discoverable, like a SOAP WSDL?
Discoverable yes, documenting in as much as you can get function names and parameter lists. (not entirely sure what you're asking for as far as documentation goes).
Can I easily add a Web Reference in Visual Studio to a JSON-RPC web service?
I don't think so, no. (Though, I have no idea, it's possible. My experience with JSON-RPC is in PHP/JS mostly)
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