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ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

Scott Guthrie announces that the source for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages (aka Razor) are released under an open source license (Apache 2.0), and that they will be accepting community contributions.

Hello Services / WebAPI, REST, JSON and AJAX

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Nice post (and accompanying screencast) from Burke Holland on creating and consuming RESTful services with ASP.NET Web API and jQuery.

My First Experience with ASP.NET Web API 101 : Sam Gentile's Blog

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Sam Gentile describes some first impressions of ASP.NET Web API from the point of view of a "WCF zealot."

ASP.NET MVC3 Using Code First Entity Framework Without Database Generation

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Phil Fresle blogs about using Entity Framework Code First with an existing database in an ASP.NET MVC 3 application.