Documentation on older versions of Web API.
Enabling CRUD Operations in Web API 1
By Mike Wasson|
This tutorial shows how to support CRUD operations in an HTTP service using ASP.NET Web API.
Using ASP.NET Web API 1 with Entity Framework 5 (7 Tutorials)
How to create a Web API 1 application that uses Entity Framework for database persistence.
Self-Host Web API 1
By Mike Wasson|
This tutorial shows an older way to self-host Web API. New applications should use OWIN for self-hosting.
Build RESTful API's with ASP.NET Web API
By Web Camps Team|
In recent years, it has become clear that HTTP is not just for serving up HTML pages. It is also a powerful platform for building Web APIs, using a handful of verbs (GET, POST, and so forth) plus a...
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