ASP.NET Web API

ASP.NET Web API

Welcome to ASP.NET Web API!

Modify the code in this template to jump-start your ASP.NET Web API development.

ASP.NET Web API allows you to expose your applications, data and services to the web directly over HTTP.

To learn more about ASP.NET Web API visit http://asp.net/web-api. The page features videos, tutorials, and samples to help you get the most from ASP.NET Web API. If you have any questions about ASP.NET Web API, visit our forums.

We suggest the following steps:

  1. Name your Web API
    Requests are routed to Web APIs based on their name. The Web API in this template will respond to requests sent to /api/values, but you can change this by renaming the ValuesController type. Your Web API name should end with Controller.
  2. Implement your Web API actions
    By convention, Web API actions map directly to HTTP methods, like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. To handle a given HTTP method just prefix your action name with the HTTP method you want to handle. Action parameters are bound to data from the request through model binding. Data returned from an action is formatted in the response as JSON or XML as requested by the client.
  3. Add Web APIs and routes
    Add additional Web APIs using the Add New Item dialog. You can also fully control the URI space for your Web APIs in Global.asax by adding routes to the HttpConfiguration object passed to the RegisterApis method.
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