Expert's voice in ASP.NET.

Includes index

ASP.NET as a service framework -- What is RESTful? -- Designing the sample REST API -- Building the environment and creating the source tree -- Up and down the stack with a POST -- Securing the service -- Dealing wiath relationships, partial updates, and other complexities -- Supporting diverse clients -- Completing the picture

This book provides technical background and guidance that will enable you to best use the ASP.NET Web API 2 Framework to build world-class REST services. All Web API-related concepts are introduced from basic principles and developed to the point where you can use them in a production system. You will: learn an introduction to the REST architecture; how to design a REST API and about new capabilities in ASP.NET Web API 2; understand ASP.NET Web API controller activation; automatic lifetime management for database connections and transactions; how to use NHibernate with ASP.NET Web API; easily secure a REST service, using standards-based authentication and authorization and JSON Web Tokens; how to support legacy SOAP callers with ASP.NET Web API; how to expose relationships between resources and how to support partial resource updates under REST; and Web API versioning. --