RESTful Services with ASP.NET Web API: Get hands-on experience of building RESTful services for the modern Web using ASP.NET Web API

Fanie Reynders

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Video Feb 2014 2hrs 4mins 1st Edition

Fanie Reynders

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Video Feb 2014 2hrs 4mins 1st Edition

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Key benefits

Apply your current ASP.NET knowledge to make your Web APIs more secure and comply to the global standard in order to make your service RESTful
Explore the possibilities of extending your Web APIs by making use of message handlers, filters, and media formatters
Comprehensive examples to help you build an end-to-end working solution for a real-use case

Description

Today, apps are everywhere, and most of these apps run on complex cloud-based backends. ASP.NET Web API allows you to easily create and deploy Web APIs to be consumed in a RESTful manner by developers to build rich and interactive applications. This video course is a great starting point for any web developer who wants to create simple web APIs in minutes. By applying your knowledge of ASP.NET in conjunction with the information provided in this video tutorial, you will learn to master the art of building RESTful services by example. The video course begins with a brief introduction that will soon get you up to speed with the framework, and will then get you building a fully functional Web API from scratch during the course of the tutorial. You will learn some of the important features of ASP.NET Web API and how it aligns to the REST standard. You will explore the different implementation strategies and get familiar with some security implementations and ways to extend your APIs, including how to wire up the client-side to the service. The tutorial also contains information on automatic documentation generation and deployment strategies such as publishing to Azure. This video tutorial provides you with a comprehensive, clear, and easy-to-follow guide to creating RESTful services with ASP.NET Web API. The code bundle for this course is available at https://github.com/packtpublishing/restful-services-with-asp.net-web-api

Who is this book for?

This video tutorial is for web developers with a basic understanding of ASP.NET, HTML, and CSS.

What you will learn

Understand the important features of ASP.NET Web API including its relationship to REST and WCF
Start building a real Web API from scratch to be consumed by any RESTful client
Learn about authentication and authorization, and applying security to the service over SSL
Explore extensibility options such as media type formatters to serve different file formats, message handlers to implement rate-limiting, filters for validation, dependency injection, and OData
Create a custom HTTP client and wire the client up to the service
Leverage the power of automatic documentation generation to provide comprehensive usage information for your Web API
Evaluate the different hosting options and publish your service to the cloud on Azure

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