Visual Studio Magazine

Run ASP.NET Web API Inside Your Application

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Implementing Binary JSON in ASP.NET Web API 2.1

Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...
InfoWorld

How to handle errors in ASP.NET Web API

Learn to handle runtime errors using exceptions and return appropriate error codes and error messages in ASP.NET Web API. Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API is a ...
Computerworld

3 reasons to use code first design with Entity Framework

The .NET Entity Framework has come a long way since its early beginnings as an NHibernate alternative and the successor to LinqToSQL. Currently in version 6.0, the ORM is stable and mature but you ...
InfoWorld

Working with Protocol Buffers in Web API

ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building stateless and RESTful HTTP services. Protocol Buffers from Google is an extremely fast, language independent, platform-neutral, extensible ...