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Practical ASP.NET Web API
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Practical ASP.NET Web API

by Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 43m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 9

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Hosting ASP.NET Web API

Though ASP.NET Web API has ASP.NET in the name, it is not tied to ASP.NET. In fact, ASP.NET Web API is host-independent. There are three ways you can host your HTTP services built using ASP.NET Web API:

  1. Using the ASP.NET infrastructure backed by the IIS (Internet Information Services) server, a technique called web hosting
  2. Using any Windows process such as a console application or Windows service, a technique called self-hosting
  3. Connecting a client to the Web API runtime, without hitting the network, a technique called in-memory hosting, used mainly for testing purposes

9.1 Web Hosting ASP.NET Web API

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