Microsoft has recently released the Visual Studio 2013 Preview 1, which includes ASP .NET Web API 2. One of the most notable new additions to Web API is attribute-based routing. Prior to version 2, ...

ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building RESTful services that run on HTTP. RESTful services are light-weight, stateless, client-server based, cacheable services that are based on ...

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Everyone appreciates good documentation -- when they need it, anyway -- but creating and maintaining that documentation sure feels like a chore sometimes. I've been researching Web API documentation ...

A custom wrapper for your Web API responses can provide meaningful information and ensure consistency regardless of success or failure. When working with ASP.NET Web API, it is important to return a ...