I had an awesome time presenting Building your own custom REST Services and consuming them with jQuery AJAX in the Australian SharePoint Conference 2012.  A big thank you to the developers that came and geeked out with me for an hour on a Wednesday afternoon.

Notes

When you build a custom WCF Service using the CKS template, it is deployed to a subfolder the web front end's ISAPI folder, which, in turn, is mapped to the site's /_vti_bin/ folder.

 

It appears that in my earlier attempt to create an incomplete version of the REST service template item, I interfered with how CKS's templates worked - and correct features for deploying the WCF service is no longer being included in the package.  While existing items were updated and deployed, the new WCF service that I was creating wasn't being deployed to the ISAPI folder.

I've removed the REST template item from my Visual Studio .NET environment, and voila - the WCF services deployed nicely once again.

So that's one mystery resolved.  Now I scratch my head about how to fix my VS.NET REST template item.

 

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