This is a outline of how you can setup a simple RESTlike client/server communication using WebAPI and Restsharp. As you will see F# records are great for this: equality out of the box, read-only by default but still nicely serializeable. I hosted the code[...]

This is just a short howto as I think it might come handy, as I struggled a bit on some points. I needed a simple way to self-host a REST-like service (returning XML data) with fine control on the structure of the results. I had a look at Nancy and others[...]