Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Implementing a CRUD ASP.NET web API

In this recipe, we will see how to create an ASP.NET web API that supports CRUD operations, which stands for Create Read Update and Delete . These map to the standard database operations that correspond to the following HTTP verbs:

• GET: The GET method retrieves whatever information is identified by the requesting URI
• PUT: The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity is to be stored under the supplied requesting URI
• POST: The POST method requests that the enclosed entity is to be a subordinate of the resource identified by the requesting URI
• DELETE: The DELETE method requests that the resource identified by the requesting URI should be deleted

In this recipe, we will see how to implement these CRUD features on ...