Advanced ASP.NET Web API 2.2

Take your knowledge of ASP.NET Web API to the next level. Learn about dependency injection, versioning, OData, working with cookies, and more.

Introduction

• Building web APIs
• What you should know

1. Dependency Injection in Web API

• What is dependency injection?
• Resolving dependencies with Unity
• Configuring the dependency resolver
• Scope of a dependency

2. Cross-Origin Requests in Web API

• What is CORS?
• Enabling CORS
• Setting CORS origins and HTTP methods
• Creating a custom CORS policy

3. Versioning APIs

• Why API versioning?
• Creating the first versioned controller
• Route versioning
• Query string versioning
• Version header versioning

4. Web API HTTP Message Handlers

• What is a message handler?
• Creating a custom message handler
• X-HTTP-Method-Override header
• Adding a custom response header

5. OData in Web API

• Setting up the environment
• Configuring the OData endpoint
• Creating the first OData controller
• Setting up a database
• Reading entities
• Creating and reading a single entity
• Updating and deleting an entity

6. Cookies in Web API

• What is a cookie?
• Setting and getting cookies in Web API
• Cookies using message handlers

7. Web API Hosting

• IIS hosting
• Self-hosting

Conclusion

• Where to go next