AS p. NET Web API: Build RESTful web applications and services on the .NET framework

Abstract

The ASP. NET Web API was designed from the ground up to meet the need of developers who want to build HTTP/RESTful services. ASp. NET Web API is an HTTP service that uses HTTP as the application protocol and can return data based on the data format requested by the client. It is a lightweight web-based architecture that provides an easy-to-use set of default options while providing a deep extensibility infrastructure to meet the demands of any scenario using HTTp. This book is a step-by-step, practical tutorial with a simple approach to help you build RESTful web applications and Web API services based on the .NET framework quickly and efficiently. This book provides complete coverage of RESTful services and the ASP. NET Web API in a lucid language with plenty of hands-on code examples. The book starts with a description of REST-based architecture and WCF.