How to start wcf services in Dynamics crm 2013?

Question

I'm newbie to wcf services. how to start wcf services with dynamics crm. at what scenarious we have to go for wcf services.Any references plz

Answer 1

In Dynamics CRM we have to write our own Web Services (WCF/SOAP) to provide limited set of data/access to the external users.

Here is an example:

We have 2 teams working in our office. 1 is Java team and the 2nd is us CRM team. To provide data of specific entities like: Account, Contact, Case we have written a WCF Webservice with the following functions:

GetAccountByGuid: Returns the Account against a specific GUID

GetContactByGuid: Returns the Contact against a specific GUID

GetCaseByGuid: Returns the Case against a specific GUID

To create a new WCF Service in Visual Studio 2012: File->New->Project->WCF Service Application

To host/Start WCF:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733766.aspx

Deploy WCF service in IIS 7.5