Creating the Web Service
There are several ways that you can create a web service. Even if you restrict yourself to Microsoft technologies, you have several options. You can create a WCF service, a WCF Data Service, an ASMX Web service, a Windows Azure Mobile Services service, or an ASP.NET Web API service.
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In the next chapter, you learn how to interact with web services created with Azure Mobile Services.
In this chapter, I create a web service by taking advantage of the ASP.NET Web API. You can add a Web API controller to either an ASP.NET Web Forms or an ASP.NET MVC project. I create an ASP.NET MVC 4 project. When creating the ASP.NET MVC 4 project, I used the Web API project template (see Figure 9.3).
FIGURE 9.3 Creating an ASP.NET ...
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