ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish

by Jamie Kurtz

This one hundred page book focuses exclusively on how you can best use the ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework to build world-class REST services using Web API. It sets aside much of what the ASP.NET MVC Framework can do, and focuses exclusively on how the Web API can help you build web services. You will not find any help on CSS, HTML, JavaScript, or jQuery. Nor will you find any help on the Razor view engine, HTML Helpers, or model binding. If you need this information thenPro ASP.NET MVC 4 is your perfect book. Using ASP.NET Web API with ASP.NET MVC 4 helps you build cutting edge REST services using ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API in more depth and detail than any other resource. ASP.NET MVC has always been a good platform on which to implement REST, but with the advent of the Web API it has now become even better. This book will show you why it's great and how to get the most from it. With little or no experience with ASP.NET or the MVC Framework, Jamie Kurtz will take you from zero to full-blown REST service hero in no time at all. And you'll even learn how to incorporate some popular open source tools along the way. What you'll learn How to design a REST API Understanding MVC and Web API controller activation Utilizing open source tools for common tasks Automatic lifetime management for database connections and transactions Easily secure a REST service, using standards-based authentication and authorization The basics of enabling the entire application for a continuous delivery pipeline How to choose between using WCF or using Web API Who this book is for

This book is written for architects and developers wanting to understand how to quickly and easily build REST services on the ASP.NET platform. No prior knowledge of ASP.NET or MVC Framework is required; though it assumed you have some experience with the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and C#.

Genres: Programming, Software

141 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 2012

Reviews

[Aelena · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an interesting book, but somewhat misleading in the sense that almost the first half is devoted to setting a development environment regarding things like how to choose a DI framework, setting up NHibernate, log4net and other stuff, all in the context, yes, of a web api project, but it is more like the title was "a development primer with web api". Also the issue of web api security is a bit tiptoed about, and does not delve much into it (although there are better books for that).
not that it was a bad book, but it is a somewhat strange concept.

[Robson Castilho · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just a big article about creating services with Web API. And definitely not a good example on decoupled architecture (although it tries to alert to some good practices such as DI).

"http://www.asp.net/web-api" is a better starting point.

[Matti Hjelm · Rating 5 out of 5]

The chapter about REST is really really good.

[Lisandro · Rating 4 out of 5]

good introduction of implementing a webapi in asp.net. If you not familiar with injection control, it's a good implementation on it!