Building an API with ASP.NET 4 Web API
Building APIs can be a difficult and daunting task for many web developers. With ASP.NET Web API, building APIs has been simplified. In this course, you are going to build a new API using Web API by adding it to an existing ASP.NET Project.
What you'll learn
Building APIs can be a challenge for many web developers but with ASP.NET Web API, this process can be simplified. In this course, Building an API with ASP.NET Web API, you will learn foundational knowledge and gain the ability to implement and build your own API's. First, you will learn and understand the role of Functional APIs in larger systems. Next, you will discover how to build association APIs to make obvious, self-documenting APIs. Finally, you will explore how to implement a complete API using Web API. By the end of this course, you’ll know how to implement a complete, maintainable API using ASP.NET Web API.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Creating an Action 2m
- Status Codes 2m
- Using Status Codes 2m
- Using GET for Collections 5m
- Why Models instead of Entities? 8m
- Contract Serialization in Web API 3m
- Getting an Individual Item 6m
- Returning Related Data 5m
- Using Query Strings 6m
- Implementing Searching 5m
- What We've Learned 1m
About the author
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. He’s authored eight books and innumerable articles on software development. You can also see him at one of the local and international conferences he’s spoken at including TechEd, Oredev, SDC, NDC, VSLive, DevIntersection, MIX, Devteach, DevConnections and Dev Reach. He is one of... more