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  • Sorry for my ignorance: I've been writing WCF services for a long time...but never for SP. Is there a specific "SP WCF" service, or is it just a WCF service that SP calls? Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 4:43
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    No it is not specific to SP it just a normal WCF service. If you notice it has access to the SharePoint Server OM. What I did was make functions that returned data from the Server OM and also my SQL database but it was all hosted within SharePoint. The first link will at least get your running your service from within sharepoint. You could do it outside Sharepoint and configure IIS yourself and just call it directyl. I prefer sp since you can customize the service. Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 13:18
  • You could use BCS if you are going to return small records sets but for multiple simultaneous calls I wouldn't use the performance is horrible. Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 13:22