Practical ASP.NET Web API provides you with a hands-on and code-focused demonstration of the
ASP.NET Web API in action. From the very beginning you'll be writing working code in order to
see best practices and concepts in action. As the book progresses the concepts and code will
become more sophisticated. Beginning with an overview of the web service model in general and
Web API in particular you'll progress quickly to a detailed exploration of the request binding
and response formatting that lie at the heart of Web API. You'll investigate various scenarios
and see how they can be manipulated to achieve the results you need. Later in the book more
sophisticated themes will be introduced that will set your applications apart from the crowd.
You ll learn how you can validate the request messages on arrival how you can create loosely
coupled controllers extend the pipeline processing to compartmentalize your code for security
and unit testing before being put onto a live hosting server.
