Introduction

If you would like to discover the possibilities offered by HTTP on the .NET Framework, ASP.NET Web API is the technology for you. This book will get you up to speed on how it works and how to use it at both high and low levels.

We have structured this book to make it really easy to use. If you would like to get your hands dirty quickly, we recommend that you work through Chapters 1 to 7 in order, because Chapters 5, 6, and 7 are all about building a sample multitier application using ASP.NET Web API. This sample application is intended as a guide on how to structure an ASP.NET Web API application in a hosting-agnostic way (from both API and client perspectives). We recommend you download the source code and run the application locally ...

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