Overview of ASP.NET Web API Framework

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1. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Overview of ASP .NET Web API Framework
2. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net http://xpinjection.com
3. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net What's new in ASP.NET 4.5? One ASP.NET Framework ASP.NET MVC 4 Release ASP.NET WebForms Improvements ASP.NET Web Pages 2 (Web Matrix) SignalR ASP.NET Web API (ex. WCF Web API) Open Source
4. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net What's new in ASP.NET 4.5? One ASP.NET Framework ASP.NET MVC 4 Release ASP.NET WebForms Improvements ASP.NET Web Pages 2 (Web Matrix) SignalR ASP.NET Web API (ex. WCF Web API) Open Source
5. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Early days of API oriented apps /GetOrders /GetOrders /UpdateOrder /GetAllDueOrders /DeleteOrder.asmx?id=1 /UpdateOrder.asms?id=1&title=”New”...
6. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net RPC Remote Procedure Call The architecture style, where client sends a request to remote server and execute specified procedure with optional parameters.
7. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net SOAP, WSDL, UDDI WS-* Finally considered to be...
8. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net … evil
9. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net RESTful based API GET /orders GET /orders/1 POST /orders PUT /orders/1?title=”New” DELETE /orders/1
10. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net REST Representational State Transfer The architecture style, where communication between client and server relys on HTTP standard and uses lightweight mechanisms for transporting data
11. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net REST, JSON, VERBS Finally considered to be...
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13. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net What is ASP.NET Web API? Framework for build REST style API services, providing best practices and features of REST services inside the box.
14. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net But I got used to build REST API with ASP.NET MVC?
15. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net ASP.NET MVC vs. ASP.NET WEB API ASP.NET MVC is positioned as page-oriented development framework. ASP.NET Web API is positioned as api-oriented development framework.
16. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net ASP.NET WEB API One service – many clients
17. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net ASP.NET Web API main features - Code Scaffolding - Content Negotiation - MediaTypeFormatters - Hypermedia - IQueryable & Odata support - Self-Documenting API - Hosting Options
18. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Quick Example: ASP.NET Mobile App
19. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Code Scaffolding - Scaffolds for Code-First Entity Framework - Easy to use - Great for quick start and prototyping - CRUD from the box
20. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Content Negotiation - Find best match between client-server - Uses HTTP header information - “Invisible” for developer - JSON, XML from the box
21. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Media Type Formatters - For support any custom API format - Based on async operations - BufferedMediaTypeFormatter wraps the asynchronous read/write methods inside sychronous methods.
22. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Hypermedia Support - Flexibility of formats - HttpResponseMessage class - Embrace correct HTTP status codes
23. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net IQueryable & OData support - Paging and sorting from the box - OData functions: $top, $order, $skip, $filter
24. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Self Documenting API - IApiExplorer interface for getting info - ApiDescription encapsulates information about particual API class - Used to generate documentation pages
25. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Hosting Options - ASP.NET hosting by default - Self Hosting (HTTP server in .exe) - OWIN, Kayak - Azure Roles
26. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net I need more!
27. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Resources http://asp.net/web-api http://channel9.msdn.com/search?term=web+api http://blogs.msdn.com/b/henrikn/ http://webapibloggers.com/
28. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Follow those guys @glennblock, @filip_woj, @tourismgeek, @frystyk, @radenkozec, @benfosterdev
29. @alexbeletsky http://beletsky.net Thanks, @alexbeletsky