End-to-end tutorials and samples for ASP.NET Web API
Creating a Web API that Supports CRUD Operations
By Mike Wasson|
This tutorial shows how to support CRUD operations in an HTTP service using ASP.NET Web API.
Sample: Contact Manager
This sample uses ASP.NET Web API to build a simple contact manager application. The application consists of a contact manager web API that is used by an ASP.NET MVC application and a Windows Phone application to display and manage a list of contacts.
Using Web API with Entity Framework (7 Tutorials)
How to create a web API that uses Entity Framework for database persistence.
Versioning RESTful Services
Howard Dierking describes options for versioning RESTful APIs.
Mobile-friendly REST service using ASP.NET Web API and SQL Database
This tutorial shows how to deploy an ASP.NET Web API application to a Windows Azure Web Site.
Using Web API with ASP.NET Web Forms
By Mike Wasson|
This tutorial shows how to use ASP.NET Web API in an ASP.NET Web Forms project.
Creating API Help Pages
By Mike Wasson|
Learn how to add help pages for your web API, so that other developers will know how to call your API.
Web API Books
Microsoft's Jon Galloway recommends these books for learning ASP.NET MVC:
Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET
by Glenn Block, Pablo Cibraro, Pedro Felix, Howard Dierking, Darrel Miller
