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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

By : Mithun Pattankar
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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

By: Mithun Pattankar

Overview of this book

Microsoft has unified their main web development platforms. This unification will help develop web applications using various pieces of the ASP.NET platform that can be deployed on both Windows and LINUX. With ASP.NET Core (Web API), it will become easier than ever to build secure HTTP services that can be used from any client. Mastering ASP.NET Web API starts with the building blocks of the ASP.NET Core, then gradually moves on to implementing various HTTP routing strategies in the Web API. We then focus on the key components of building applications that employ the Web API, such as Kestrel, Middleware, Filters, Logging, Security, and Entity Framework.Readers will be introduced to take the TDD approach to write test cases along with the new Visual Studio 2017 live unit testing feature. They will also be introduced to integrate with the database using ORMs. Finally, we explore how the Web API can be consumed in a browser as well as by mobile applications by utilizing Angular 4, Ionic and ReactJS. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply best practices to develop complex Web API, consume them in frontend applications and deploy these applications to a modern hosting infrastructure.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

The ASP.NET Core routing functionality is powerful, and highly configurable. In this chapter, you learned how the routing middleware works with the HTTP pipeline. We used RouteBuilder to create route tables and navigated between them. You also learned about the UseMvc middleware implementing routing middleware internally.

Routing can be either conventional or Attribute-based, we discussed and implemented route parameters using custom constraints. The Link generation feature can be used for generating links to specific routes. You also learnt some best practices for web API routing.

The upcoming chapter focuses on the middleware concept of ASP.NET Core--you will learn the basics of middleware, writing some custom middleware, and about Filters in ASP.NET Core applications.