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ASP.NET Core Essentials

By : Shahed Chowdhuri
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ASP.NET Core Essentials

By: Shahed Chowdhuri

Overview of this book

<p>ASP.NET Core is the latest collection of Microsoft’s web application development technologies. When you’re trying to reach a broad spectrum of users with a robust web application, ASP.NET Core is there to help you build that application. With the ability to cater to users on desktop, tablet, or smartphone platforms, you can put together a solution that works well anywhere.</p> <p>This book is what you need to get started developing ASP.NET Core applications was quickly as possible; starting by introducing the software and how it can be used in today’s modern world of web applications and smartphone apps. Walking you through the benefits of a Web API to support both applications and mobile apps to give you a solid understanding of the tech to build upon as you see what ASP.NET Core can do for you.</p> <p>The book wraps up with practical guidelines for the use of database technologies, unit tests, security best practices, and cloud deployments for the real world.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
ASP.NET Core Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 4.  Using Web APIs to Extend Your Application

If you've used the ASP.NET Web API with prior versions of ASP.NET, you may recall that a Web API controller typically inherits from the APIController. This has changed in the ASP.NET Core, as part of the unification of MVC and the Web API. As a result, each Web API controller inherits from the Controller class, which is also the base class for each MVC controller.

In this chapter, we will work through a working sample of a Web API project. During this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Web APIs

  • Web API configuration

  • Web API routes

  • Consuming Web API applications