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In recent years, it has besdcdccome clear that HTTP is not just for serving up HTML pages. It is also a powerful platform for building Web APIs, using a handful of verbs (GET, POST, and so forth) plus a few simple concepts such as URIs and headers. ASP.NET Web API is a set of components that simplify HTTP programming. Because it is built on top of the ASP.NET MVC runtime, Web API automatically handles the low-level transport details of HTTP. At the same time, Web API naturally exposes the HTTP programming model. In fact, one goal of Web API is to not abstract away the reality of HTTP. As a result, Web API is both flexible and easy to extend. In this hands-on lab, you will use Web API to build a simple REST API for a contact manager application. You will also build a client to consume the API. The REST architectural style has proven to be an effective way to leverage HTTP – although it is certainly not the only valid approach to HTTP. The contact manager will expose the RESTful for listing, adding and removing contacts, among others. This lab requires a basic understanding of HTTP, REST, and assumes you have a basic working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and jQuery.
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The ASP.NET Web site has an area dedicated to the ASP.NET Web API framework at https://asp.net/web-api. This site will continue to provide late-breaking information, samples, and news related to Web API, so check it frequently if you’d like to delve deeper into the art of creating custom Web APIs available to virtually any device or development framework.
ASP.NET Web API, similar to ASP.NET MVC 4, has great flexibility in terms of separating the service layer from the controllers allowing you to use several of the available Dependency Injection frameworks fairly easy. There is a good sample in MSDN that shows how to use Ninject for dependency injection in an ASP.NET Web API project that you can download it from here.
All sample code and snippets are included in the Web Camps Training Kit, available at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248297&clcid=0x409.