I’m currently implementing WebAPI into my company’s external web services. It was pretty easy to learn and add to our existing WCF web services. I used online videos (especially PluralSight) and ASP.NET to get acquainted with Web API:
- http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/building-dotnet-web-services-10ways
- http://www.asp.net/web-api
- http://www.asp.net/web-api/videos
I went with MVC version 4.0 and I created methods using a routing of “Api/{controller}/{action}”
The automatic help documentation is very impressive.
I first created a sample Web API project and then copied and pasted the code into my existing web service project. I did have to add a lot of references and install a lot of packages from NuGet but it was fairly easy to do.
I liked testing the APIs with Fiddler. It is easy to switch back and forth between JSON and XML.
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