ASP.NET Web API Introduction

2. Agenda
 What and Why
 RESTFul Web API
 ASP.NET 4 Web API
 Windows 8 and Windows Phone Data Access Strategy

3. What and Why
 Is a framework that makes it
easy to build HTTP services
that reach a broad range of
clients, including browsers and
mobile devices.
 Is a ideal platform for building
RESTful applications on the
.NET Framework.

4. RESTFul Web API
 Representational State
Transfer (REST) is a style of
software architecture
for distributed systems
 Ideated by Roy Fielding
 No standard
 Public application API

5. ASP.NET Web API
 Part of ASP.NET MVC 4
 Build on top of ASP.NET
Web Stack
 Routing, Controller-based,
Fine-grind control over
HTTP, Model Binder,
Formatter (JSON and XML),
OData

7. Win8 and WP Data Access Strategy
 Data stay on server-side
 Exposed to clients by Web
API

9. Resources
 http://asp.net/web-api
 http://hanselman.com
 http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway
 Pluralsight