Practical ASP.NET Web API provides you with a hands-on and code-focused demonstration of the ASP.NET Web API in action

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.

The ASP.NET MVC Framework has always been a good platform on which to implement REST-based services, but the introduction of the ASP.NET Web API Framework raised the bar to a whole new level.

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.