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Building Web Services with Windows Azure (new)

You're reading from   Building Web Services with Windows Azure (new) Quickly develop scalable, REST-based applications or services and learn how to manage them using Microsoft Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398378
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface Introduction FREE CHAPTER 1. Getting Started with the ASP.NET Web API 2. Extending the ASP.NET Web API 3. API Management 4. Developing a Web API for Mobile Apps 5. Connecting Applications with Microsoft Azure Service Bus 6. Creating Hybrid Services 7. Data Services in the Cloud – an Overview of ADO.NET and Entity Framework 8. Data Services in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure Storage 9. Data Services in the Cloud – NoSQL in Microsoft Azure Index

Behind the scenes with the ASP.NET Web API

Let's talk about some of the internal workings of ASP.NET Web API and how a request is received and a corresponding response generated.

Anatomy of the API of ASP.NET Web API

Before we understand the request and response lifecycle within ASP.NET Web API, it is important to comprehend some of the principal types and their usage within the pipeline.

The core assemblies for ASP.NET Web API can be installed using the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi NuGet package, which is distributed under the MS license, this will install all the required dependencies to develop an ASP.NET Web API service.

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NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform, including .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. NuGet is installed as part of the Visual Studio 2013 release. To know more about NuGet, visit https://www.nuget.org/.

To install the runtime packages via the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio use...

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