You're reading from Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API Confident of your web application skills but not yet au fait with mobile development? Well this book helps you use the Kendo UI for a painless introduction. Practical tasks and clear instructions make learning a breeze.

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782160922

Length 256 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Kendo UI

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Preface

1. Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Your First Mobile Application

3. Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API

4. Integration Using Framework Elements

5. Exploring Mobile Widgets

6. ActionSheet, ModalView, and More Widgets

7. Movie Tickets Application – Complete Integration

Index

Creating a Web API service

Let's now open up Visual Studio 2012 and create the ASP.NET Web API backend service for our Movie Tickets app in C#.

Please note that the service layer that we are building in this chapter is available online at the following URL:

The service methods available here can be used for testing and integrating with your app if you do not want to create the service locally.

Now, carry out the following steps to create the Web API service:

Make sure that you have installed Visual Studio 2012/2010 with MVC 4. If not installed, you can use the Microsoft Web Platform Installer to install them from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
Launch Visual Studio, create a new project by navigating to the File menu and then New | Project.... Now from the pop up menu, select Visual C# Template from the left menu and select the ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application template. Name the project as MovieTickets.WebAPI...

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