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11. Creating RESTful Web API Services

Alessandro Del Sole

(1)Cremona, Italy

For several years, the ASP.NET Web API has been the framework from Microsoft that developers could use to create RESTful services that a broad range of clients, such as browsers, desktop applications, and mobile apps, can consume via HTTP and HTTPS requests based on the most common verbs such as GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer and allows for communication interoperability between clients and servers through standard protocols and data formats, where the service does not retain the exchanged information ...

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