Getting started Let’s create a Web API project first. To do this, create a blank ASP.Net project in Visual Studio 2015 and check the Web API checkbox when selecting the project template.

A Web API project stores the configuration information in the RouteConfig and WebApiConfig classes — both of these are present in the Application_Start folder.

Eric Vogel covers how to use the new Web API 2 routing attributes to create a Web service in Part 1 of this series.

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server.

A coalition of tech companies announced today the launch of Open Web Docs, a new initiative to help write documentation for Web APIs, JavaScript, and other web tooling and platforms. The new ...

'Broken object level authorization' is the number one API vulnerability that attackers can exploit to gain access to an organization's data, according to a report from the independent Open Web ...