CHAPTER 17
Hosting
ASP.NET applications have historically used Internet Information Services (IIS) for their hosting, but during development, developers have used Visual Studio Development Server (also known as Cassini) or IIS Express. All in all, ASP.NET has been a web stack all the way and ASP.NET MVC did not change this.
However, with ASP.NET Web API, this pattern changed: there are now more options. ASP.NET Web API has been designed to support other hosting scenarios, because, as explained in Chapter 1, ASP.NET Web API comes from a line of server technologies, such as WCF, that can be hosted in IIS as well as other processes. Also the ability ...
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