Design and build Web APIs for a broad range of clients--including browsers and mobile devices--that can adapt to change over time. This practical, hands-on guide takes you through the theory and tools you need to build evolvable HTTP services with Microsoft's ASP.NET Web API framework. In the process, you'll learn how design and implement a real-world Web API.
Ideal for experienced .NET developers, this book's sections on basic Web API theory and design also apply to developers who work with other development stacks such as Java, Ruby, PHP, and Node.
- Dig into HTTP essentials, as well as API development concepts and styles
- Learn ASP.NET Web API fundamentals, including the lifecycle of a request as it travels through the framework
- Design the Issue Tracker API example, exploring topics such as hypermedia support with collection+json
- Use behavioral-driven development with ASP.NET Web API to implement and enhance the application
- Explore techniques for building clients that are resilient to change, and make it easy to consume hypermedia APIs
- Get a comprehensive reference on how ASP.NET Web API works under the hood, including security and testability
Glenn is a currently working on the Azure team at Microsoft. He was previously a PM on the WCF team working on Microsoft's future HTTP and REST stack as well as a PM on the new Managed Extensibility Framework in .NET 4.0. Glenn has a breadth of experience both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. Glenn has also been very active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping several products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so. Glenn is also a frequent speaker at local and international events and user groups. Pablo is a software architect at Tellago Inc and an internationally recognized expert with over 10 years of experience in arquitecting and implementing large distributed systems with Microsoft Technnologies. He has spent the past few years working directly with the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team on sample applications, patterns and guidance for building service-oriented applications with Web Services, Web Services Enhancements (WSE) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). The biggest contributions with this team were the Web Services Security patterns, and the implementation of a Secure Token Service quickstart for WSE 3.0 and WCF. He now focuses on technologies that enable developers to build large scale systems such as WCF, WF, Dublin, OSLO and Windows Azure. The community knows Pablo mainly for his weblog and active participation in conferences and forums. Pedro Felix lives in Lisbon, Portugal, where he teaches and studies programming and computer security related subjects. Howard Dierking is Microsoft Program Manager on the WCF Web API team focusing on AppFabric. Prior to this position he has held several others at Microsoft including Editor-in-Chief of MSDN Magazine and Product Planner within Microsoft Learning. Darrel Miller is co-owner of Tavis Software, a software solutions and services company specializing in the manufacturing sector. He spends his days showing people how to apply the REST architectural style to business applications.
