August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 26m
English
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ASP.NET Core Web API and Routing
Until now, we saw the basics of Routing without MVC or web API involved in the form of Middleware Router, RouteBuilder, and MapRoute. It was essential to understand how these concepts work together.
When we create an ASP.NET Core app as a web API, there are certain routing-related functionalities which are essential to know about.
In Chapter 3, Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API, we created a simple web API project; looking at the Configure and ConfigureServices methods of the Startup class, only the MVC middleware and service got added. There is no reference to the Routing middleware.
The question that now arises is how does the web API project do all the Routing that is required. The answer lies in the MVC ...