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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from   Mastering ASP.NET Web API Build powerful HTTP services and make the most of the ASP.NET Core Web API platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463951
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Pattankar Pattankar
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface
1. Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding HTTP and REST 3. Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API 4. Controllers, Actions, and Models 5. Implementing Routing 6. Middleware and Filters 7. Perform Unit and Integration Testing 8. Web API Security 9. Integration with Database 10. Error Handling, Tracing, and Logging 11. Optimization and Performance 12. Hosting and Deployment 13. Modern Web Frontends

Inception of Web APIs and their evolution


Looking back to the days when the ASP.NET ASMX-based XML web service was widely used for building service-oriented applications, it was the easiest way to create a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)-based service that could be used by both .NET applications and non-.NET applications. It was available only over HTTP.

In the late 2007, Microsoft released Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF was and is, even now, a powerful technology for building SOA-based applications. It was a giant leap in the world of the Microsoft .NET world.

WCF was flexible enough to be configured as an HTTP service, remoting service, TCP service, and so on. Using the contracts of WCF, we would keep the entire business logic code base the same, and expose the service as HTTP-based or non-HTTP-based via SOAP/non SOAP.

Until 2010, the ASMX-based XML web service, or WCF service, was widely used in client-server-based applications; in fact, everything was running smoothly...

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