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 ...