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Pro ASP.NET MVC 4, Fourth Edition
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Pro ASP.NET MVC 4, Fourth Edition

by Adam Freeman
January 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
756 pages
19h 59m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 25

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Web API

In this chapter, we describe the Web API feature, which is a new addition to the ASP.NET platform that allows you to quickly and easily create Web services that provide an API to HTTP clients, known as Web APIs.

The Web API feature is based on the same foundation as regular MVC Framework applications, but is not part of the MVC Framework. Instead, Microsoft has taken some key classes and characteristics that are associated with the System.Web.Mvc namespace and duplicated them in the System.Web.Http namespace. The idea is that Web API is part of the core ASP.NET platform and can be used in other types of Web applications or ...

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