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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook
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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

by Jose Luis Latorre
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
226 pages
4h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating our first ASP.NET web API

In this recipe, we will see how to expose a basic service and some data through HTTP with the ASP.NET web API.

Getting ready

In order to use this recipe, you should have Visual Studio 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4 installed (the latter one includes the ASP.NET web API).

How to do it...

Next we are going to create a web API:

  1. To start, open Visual Studio 2012, select the web category from the visual C# categories and use the ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application template to create a new project. Name it WebAPI101.
  2. On the New ASP.NET MVC 4 Project dialog select the Web API template and click on the OK button.
    How to do it...

    The following project structure ...

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