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Advanced Topics

In this chapter, you'll learn:
These videos explore some advanced topics in ASP.NET Web API

  1. Deep Dive into Web API

    Daniel Roth takes a code-centric deep dive into the Web API features and how to use Visual Studio 2012 to leverage those features in your own API development.

  2. Securing ASP.NET Web APIs

    Dominick Baier of thinktecture talks about authentication and authorization in Web API. This talk explores the various options, and puts special focus on technologies like claims, SAML, OAuth2, Simple Web Tokens and delegation.

Web API Books

Microsoft's Jon Galloway recommends these books for learning ASP.NET MVC:

Pro ASP.NET Web API

Pro ASP.NET Web API

by Tugberk Ugurlu, Alexander Zeitler

Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

by Glenn Block, Pablo Cibraro, Pedro Felix, Howard Dierking, Darrel Miller

ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish

ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish

by Jamie Kurtz