WCF Web API is now ASP.NET Web API
For the past year, I’ve been studying and exploring the preview releases of WCF Web API. The result of these activities is reflected in a series of posts presenting its programing model, processing...
View ArticleSelf-hosting ASP.NET Web API
Just a simple example, showing how to self-host ASP.NET Web API. On an elevated console (“Run as administrator”), execute “netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8080/ user=<your user name>”, to...
View ArticleEnabling HTTPS with self-hosted ASP.NET Web API
In a previous post, I showed how to self-host ASP.NET Web API. This post shows how to change that example in order to enable HTTPS support. On an elevated console (“Run as administrator”), execute...
View ArticleASP.NET Web API Processing Architecture
Introduction This post presents a first overview of the ASP.NET Web API processing architecture: what happens since a HTTP request is received until a response is produced. Processing Architecture The...
View ArticleASP.NET Web API: in-memory hosting
One of the nice features in the new ASP.NET Web API is in-memory hosting, i.e., the possibility to directly connect a HttpClient to the server-side runtime, without any network usage or HTTP message...
View ArticleASP.NET Web API: web hosting
In a previous post, I described the processing architecture of the new ASP.NET Web API, namely its division into three layers: hosting, message handler pipeline and controller handling. In this post,...
View ArticleASP.NET Web API: self-hosting
In the last posts, I’ve been exploring the new ASP.NET Web API Beta architecture. I started by the high-level processing architecture, then described web hosting and in-memory hosting, i.e., directly...
View ArticleASP.NET Web API: Creating an Host using Azure Service Bus
In the last posts, I’ve presented the new ASP.NET Web API processing architecture and described three different hosting capabilities, supported “out of the box”: web hosting, in-memory hosting and...
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