Web API Guidance

• Getting Started

  • Getting Started with Web API 2 (C#)
  • Action Results in Web API 2
  • Using Web API with ASP.NET Web Forms
  • Creating Web API Help Pages
  • Hands On Lab: Build a Single Page Application (SPA) with ASP.NET Web API and Angular.js

• Routing

  • Routing in Web API
  • Routing and Action Selection in Web API
  • Attribute Routing in Web API 2
  • Create a REST API with Attribute Routing in Web API 2

• Working with Data

  • Using Web API 2 with Entity Framework 6

    • Create the Project
    • Add Models and Controllers
    • Seed the Database
    • Handling Entity Relations
    • Create Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)
    • Create the JavaScript Client
    • Create the View (UI)
    • Display Item Details
    • Add a New Item to the Database
    • Publish the App to Azure Websites

• Mobile Clients

  • Calling Web API from a Windows Phone 8 Application (C#)

• OData

  • OData v4

    • Create an OData v4 Endpoint
    • Create an OData v4 Client App (C#)
    • Entity Relations in OData v4
    • Actions and Functions in OData v4
    • Containment in OData v4
    • Create a Singleton in OData v4
    • Open Types in OData v4
    • Complex Type Inheritance in OData v4

  • OData v3

    • Creating an OData v3 Endpoint
    • Supporting Entity Relations in OData v3
    • OData Actions in Web API 2
    • Calling an OData Service From a .NET Client (C#)

  • Supporting OData Query Options in Web API 2

  • Using $select, $expand, and $value in Web API 2 OData

  • Routing Conventions in Web API 2 OData

  • Security Guidance for Web API 2 OData

• Serialization and Model Binding

  • Media Formatters in Web API 2
  • JSON and XML Serialization in Web API
  • BSON Support in Web API 2.1
  • Content Negotiation in Web API
  • Model Validation in Web API
  • Parameter Binding in Web API

• Error Handling

  • Exception Handling in Web API
  • Global Error Handling in Web API 2

• Testing and Debugging

  • Tracing in Web API 2
  • Unit Testing Web API 2
  • Unit Testing Controllers in ASP.NET Web API 2
  • Mocking Entity Framework when Unit Testing Web API 2
  • Troubleshooting HTTP 405 Errors after Publishing Web API 2 Applications

• Security, Authentication, and Authorization

  • Authentication and Authorization in Web API
  • Secure a Web API with Individual Accounts in Web API 2.2
  • External Authentication Services with Web API (C#)
  • Preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Attacks in Web API
  • Enabling Cross-Origin Requests in Web API 2
  • Authentication Filters in Web API 2
  • Basic Authentication in Web API
  • Forms Authentication in Web API
  • Integrated Windows Authentication
  • Working with SSL

• Deployment and Hosting

  • Use OWIN to Self-Host Web API 2
  • Host Web API 2 in an Azure Worker Role

• Advanced Topics

  • Configuring Web API 2
  • Dependency Injection in Web API 2
  • Calling a Web API From a .NET Client (C#)
  • HTTP Message Handlers in Web API
  • HttpClient Message Handlers in Web API
  • Sending HTML Form Data in Web API: Form-urlencoded Data
  • Sending HTML Form Data in Web API: File Upload and Multipart MIME
  • HTTP Cookies in ASP.NET Web API

• Releases

  • What's New in Web API OData 5.3
  • What's New in ASP.NET Web API 2.2
  • What's New in ASP.NET Web API 2.1

• Older Versions

  • Enabling CRUD Operations in Web API 1

  • Using ASP.NET Web API 1 with Entity Framework 5

    • Overview and Creating the Project
    • Creating the Domain Models
    • Creating an Admin Controller
    • Adding an Admin View
    • Creating a Dynamic UI with Knockout.js
    • Creating Product and Order Controllers
    • Creating the Main Page

  • Self-Host Web API 1 (C#)

  • Build RESTful API's with ASP.NET Web API