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

Table of Contents (9) Chapters

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

Chapter 3. Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API

In this chapter, ASP.NET Web API will be introduced with examples, and the service layer structure for our Movie Tickets application will be created. If you are not a .NET programmer or you don't intend to mess with data and service layers, feel free to skip this chapter. The service that we are building in this chapter is available online, which can be used while building the sample application. This service instance can be used as the backend, while following the Movie Tickets application integration. This chapter is not a complete reference of ASP.NET Web API, but details its features and how to use it to develop, service backend for our mobile client. An understanding of ASP.NET MVC is desired, but not necessary to follow the contents of this chapter.

In this chapter we will cover:

Creating a Web API service
Routing
Parameter binding
Building a service for the Movie Tickets application
Content negotiation
Securing Web API

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