Earlier this week I blogged about the release of the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta . ASP.NET MVC 4 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities. One of the improvements I'm most excited about is the support it brings for creating "Web APIs". Today's blog post is the first of several I'm going to do that talk about this new functionality. Web APIs The last few years have seen the rise of Web APIs - services exposed over plain HTTP rather than through a more formal service contract (like SOAP or WS*). Exposing services this way can make it easier to integrate functionality with a broad variety of device and client platforms, as well as create richer HTML experiences using JavaScript from...(read more) ...
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