ASP.NET Web API Security Essentials

Setting up your browser client

Let's create a Web API for Contact Lookup. This Contact Lookup Web API service will return the list of contacts to the calling client application. Then we will be consuming the Contact Lookup service using the jQuery AJAX call to list and search contacts.

This application will help us in demonstrating the Web API security throughout this book.

Implementing Web API lookup service

In this section, we are going to create a Contact Lookup web API service that returns a list of contacts in the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. The client that consumes this Contact Lookup is a simple web page that displays the list of contacts using jQuery. Follow these steps to start the project:

1. Create New Project from the Start ...