Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building stateless and RESTful HTTP services. You can take advantage of Action Results in Web API to return data from the Web API controller methods ...

Manfred (@ManfredBo) is API Market Development Director at 3scale – delivering API Management solutions (@3scale on Twitter). Vanessa (@deepbane) is a Product Manager at APItools by 3scale – a tool ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

When you’re learning about new concepts, it’s always helpful to have practical examples and projects to work on. The Spotify API is a great introduction to Web APIs in general. With it, you can easily ...