Microsoft has unified their main web development platforms and this unification will help you effectively develop web applications using various aspects of the ASP.NET platform that can be deployed on both Windows and Linux. With ASP.NET Core (Web API), it will become easier than ever to build secure HTTP services that can be used from any client.

This introduction to programming text provides students taking a programming logic or computer concepts course with the fundamentals of key programming concepts, an introduction and discussion of programming code, and the opportunity to apply knowledge learned using Visual Basic .NET.

To make it easier for you to master ASP.NET, you get complete web applications: including the web forms, the aspx code, and the C# code, that show you how each feature works in context. You get chapter exercises that let you practice your new skills. And you get Murach's distinctive "paired-pages" format that developers like because it saves both training and reference time.

The ASP.NET Web API was designed from the ground up to meet the need of developers who want to build HTTP/RESTful services. ASP.NET Web API is an HTTP service that uses HTTP as the application protocol and can return data based on the data format requested by the client. It is a lightweight web-based architecture that provides an easy-to-use set of default options while providing a deep extensibility infrastructure to meet the demands of any scenario using HTTP.