Microsoft has recently released the Visual Studio 2013 Preview 1, which includes ASP .NET Web API 2. One of the most notable new additions to Web API is attribute-based routing. Prior to version 2, ...

ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework that can be used for building RESTful HTTP services. When working with controller methods in Web API, you will often need to pass parameters to those methods ...

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

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Learn to handle runtime errors using exceptions and return appropriate error codes and error messages in ASP.NET Web API. Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API is a ...

Although some people enjoy futzing about with raw API services from the likes of Google, Amazon et al, most people just want software to help them get their work done faster. That will create an ...