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Published inOct 2014

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ISBN-139781782173373

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Introducing a Web API

Using web services with client applications is common practice in many systems, as it allows clients to interact with data sources and other resources indirectly, allowing greater control over security and also allowing us to present data to applications in an application-domain friendly format.

The Web API (currently Version 2) is an ASP.NET framework for building RESTful HTTP web services (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer) for a wide range of client applications, including websites, desktop applications, and mobile applications (although Azure also offers dedicated mobile services that we'll look at in the next chapter). A Web API is simple to implement compared to other web service technologies such as WCF, which is designed for SOAP and requires complicated configuration. A Web API is similar to MVC, where we have controllers with HTTP methods routed to actions, but where MVC is used to build websites that interact with a web browser and...

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Published in: Oct 2014Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782173373

Authors (2)

Geoff Webber Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 10 years' experience in the software industry, working in manufacturing, electronics, and other engineering disciplines. He has experience of building enterprise and smaller .NET systems on Azure and other platforms. He also has commercial and personal experience of developing Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications. He has authored Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Packt Publishing.
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Geoff Webber-Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 16 years' software development experience, working in a variety of sectors on Windows, web, and mobile applications. He has worked on XAML/MVVM applications since the days of Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 and has been building Xamarin apps commercially for a number of years. Geoff is also the author of two books for Packt: Learning Microsoft Azure and Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
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